The line from Carson City was extended to Virginia City
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Thomas Edison
1864 – Thomas Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. Jimmie’s father, station agent J.U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator. The story would have spread around the telegraph community that MacKenzie had taken […]
Frank Bell
Frank Bell 1840 – 1927 Early pioneer of both the telegraph and telephone. He was builder of the first telegraph lines across the Sierra’s from Placerville to Genoa then on to Virginia City. He also had the distinction of telegraphing Nevada’s Constitution to President Lincoln prior to Nevada becoming a state in 1864. Frank Bell […]
