William Hepburn Russell

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William Hepburn Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express.

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William Hepburn Russell canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American
businessperson
entrepreneur
human
activeIn 19th century
associatedWith Overland Stage route
surface form: Overland Stage routes

Post Office Department
surface form: United States Post Office Department
basedIn Leavenworth, Kansas
Missouri frontier
burialPlace Kansas City, Kansas
businessSector mail delivery
overland freight
transportation
causeOfNotability pioneering fast mail service between Missouri and California
coFounded Pony Express
Russell, Majors and Waddell
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1812-01-31
dateOfDeath 1872-09-10
employer Russell, Majors and Waddell
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Russell
fieldOfWork express mail services
freighting
stagecoach operations
givenName William
historicalPeriod Old West
surface form: American Old West
knownFor co-founding the Pony Express
languageSpoken English
lifespan 1812–1872
memberOf Russell, Majors and Waddell
middleName Hepburn
notableEvent establishment of Pony Express in 1860
notableWork Pony Express
occupation businessperson
transportation entrepreneur
partnerInBusinessWith Alexander Majors
William B. Waddell
placeOfBirth Bracken County, Kentucky NERFINISHED
Kentucky
placeOfDeath Kansas
Wyandotte County, Kansas NERFINISHED
residence Kansas
Missouri
role organizer of transcontinental mail service
sexOrGender male

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William B. Waddell partnerInBusinessWith William Hepburn Russell
Boston Rustlers owner William Hepburn Russell
Boston Rustlers namedAfter William Hepburn Russell