Transp. HE 5896 .s86 1881

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, by

A. L. STIMSON,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTORY

11

PART I.-1839 to 1860.

CHAPTER I.

The Introduction of the Railway System in America.-Orig-

inal Railroad Charters.—The Exit of the Mail Stage

Service, and the Inception of the Express by Harnden

13

CHAPTER II.

William Frederick Harnden.—His Express Enterprise.--Its

Operations between Boston and New York. Its Exten-

sion, Success and Outcome.—Henry Wells his Agent ,

38

CHAPTER III.

The Adams Express.--Alvin Adams, Its Founder.-Opera-

tions in New England, New York, and South.-Sanford

and Shoemaker .

51

The Pioneers of the American Express.—Geo. Pomeroy,

Henry Wells, the Livingstons, Fargos and Butterfield.

Westward Ho!

60

CHAPTER V.

Origin of the National Express ; Thompson & Co.; Wells,

Fargo & Co, and Others

69

CHAPTER VI.

The United States Express.-The N. Y. & Erie Experiment.

-The Howards.-Leonard, Fiske, Cheney and Others.

-Studley's Baggage Express System.-Close of the

First 21 Years' History of Express Service

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78

PART II.-1860 TO 1880.

CHAPTER I.

The American and Other Expresses in New England

CHAPTER II.

The Adams and the Local Expresses in the Eastern States.—

Wells, Fargo & Co.-The Express a Specialty

CHAPTER III.

From Boston to New York by Long Island Sound--One of

the Adams' Routes.-The Adams in New York City

CHAPTER IV.

The American in New York.-An Express War.-The M.

U. Ex. and What Became of it

CHAPTER V.

The United States; the National; the Southeru; New Jer-

sey; Central; Union, etc.

CHAPTER VI.

Operations of the Adams, its Auxiliaries, and Other Com-

panies in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

CHAPTER VII.

The Adams in Maryland and Virginia.—The Baltimore Di-

vision and its Superintendent