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Jonathan Van Horne was a telegraph company executive, serving as vice president of the Western Union Telegraph Company.
Born on April 12, 1827, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Van Horne began working in telegraph offices shortly after the development of telegraphy, starting as a messenger boy and working his way to manager of various telegraph offices in Ohio, Michigan, and Alabama, by the 1850s.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Van Horne became president of the Southwestern Telegraph Company, which continued operation behind Confederate lines. After the war, he helped consolidate several telegraph companies into Western Union and became the general superintendent of the company’s southern division. He was elected to company vice president in 1878. He served in that role until retiring in the late 1890s. Van Horne passed away in 1902 near Louisville, Kentucky. He is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.
(Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, KY, December 14, 1902; The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, GA, December 14, 1902; FindaGrave; Telegraph Age, Vol. 19, 536)
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See also: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Telegraph_Age/V383AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=van%20horne
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