Jeptha Wade

Jeptha Wade

American industrialist and philanthropist

Jeptha Homer Wade (August 11, 1811 – August 9, 1890) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph. Wade was born in Romulus, New York, the youngest of nine children of Jeptha and Sarah (Allen) Wade.2

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Born Aug 11, 1811, died Aug 9, 1890.1

About

He made the first Daguerreotypes west of New York, was a portrait painter, and moved to Adrian, Michigan, in 1840 before developing an interest in the telegraph.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, painter, daguerreotypist.6

  • Date not recordedFounded Cleveland Museum of Art3
  • Date not recordedFounded Pacific Telegraph Company4
  • Date not recordedFounded Western Union5

Personal life

  • BornAug 11, 1811, Romulus7
  • CitizenshipUnited States8
  • ResidenceAdrian, Cleveland9

Wade married Rebecca Louiza Facer in 1832, who bore his first son, Randall Palmer Wade, later that year. Rebecca Wade died November 30, 1836, at the age of 24.

He remarried in 1837 to Susan Maranda Fleming, with whom he adopted 4 more children. All are buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland.

Jeptha Wade died suddenly of peritonitis on August 10, 1890.

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