Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York,^[3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph companies.^[4] The company dominated the American telegraphy industry from the 1860s to the 1980s,^[5] pioneering technology such as telex and developing a range of telegraph-related services (including wire money transfer) in addition to its core business of transmitting and delivering telegram messages.

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