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Zenas Barnum

BARNUM, Zenas, capitalist, born near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 9 December 1810; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 5 April 1865. He was a civil engineer, but became proprietor of Barnum's Hotel in Baltimore, in the management of which he acquired a large fortune. Later he became president of the Baltimore central railroad, and devoted his entire energies to its reorganization, a task in which he was thoroughly successful. Mr. Barnum was largely interested in the development of the telegraph, and was the first president of the American Telegraph Company. He was also president of the Magnetic Telegraph Company at the time of his death.

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