Re: Adams Express in Iowa
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In reply to:
Adams Express in Iowa
6/21/00
Adams and Company organized under the title of the Adams Express Company in March, 1853, and April, 1854.The chief shareholders of the company were Alvin Adams, of Boston who became company president; William B. Dinsmore, of New York; Edward S. Sanford, of Philadelphia; Samuel S. Shoemaker, of Baltimore; James M. Thompson, of Springfield, Massachusetts; Johnstone Livingstone, of New York; and R. B. Kinsley, of Newport, Rhode Island.
Source: The Life of Henry Bradley Plant, Founder and President of the Plant Systemof Railroads and Steamships and also The Southern Express Company by G. Hutchinson Smyth, D.D.