The Postal Telegraph Company had its beginnings in the Commercial Cable Company. The latter was founded in 1884 by mining tycoon John William Mackay and newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett,…
Oxen are bovines trained as draft animals. They are most commonly castrated adult males, although bulls and cows may be used as well. They can pull heavier loads for a…
The McKeen motor car was developed by William Riley McKeen, Jr., who was born in Indiana in 1869. McKeen was a graduate of Rose Polytechnic Institute and John Hopkins University,…
Elmer George Beehler, a Valentine’s baby born in Greeley in 1892, was a talented, productive maker and fixer of things mechanical and electrical. After completing the eighth grade, he joined…