Express

Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference · 1901 · p. 250

This system of transportation was begun March 4, 1839, by William F. Harnden, who established expre communication between New York and Boston. Alvin Adams and P. B. Burke started the Adams Expre Company in 1840. The Wells-Fargo Company was started in 1845, the United States Expre Company in 1853.