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Livingstons with Wells,
Fargo and American Express
Page entitled :
Livingstons in the beginnings of express business
Content of this page is about :
Great-grandsons of Robert Livingston, third lord of Livingston Manor and the
beginnings of express services in America, William F. Harnden, ...
Extract :
... In the 1840's, some two
decades after the Fulton & Livingston monopoly for steam navigation on the
Hudson river was broken, three scions of the mainline Livingstons of
Livingston Manor separately entered another would-be important field of the
transportation sector : the express business. Though never in the driving
seat, these Livingston descendants were important stockholders in the
different companies that eventually made up the Express Trust ...
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