The Milwaukee and Galena Telegraph Company was organized, with A. Hyatt Smith as president.

The evidence

• “In June, 1848, the present Trinity church building was finished and dedicated. September 7, 1848, the Milwaukee and Galena Telegraph Company was organized, A. Hyatt Smith, of Janesville, being president, and R.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/26-history-of-janesville.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 28 / book p. 542

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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