Kenosha-Milwaukee County WI Archives Biographies.....Halsey, James A. 1855 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JAMES A. HALSEY, agent Truesdell Station; Sec. 4; P. O. Truesdell; born in
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1855; Feb. 20, 1867, removed to Milwaukee, Wis., with his
parents, where he completed his education; May 10, 1870, entered the dry goods
house of T. A. Chapman & Co., Milwaukee, as cash boy; three weeks later, was
given a clerkship in the cotton department; did not like the business; resigned
June 28, 1870, and obtained a position as Messenger No. 3, Great Western
Telegraph Company; June 6. 1871, Messenger No. 2; April 28, 1871, appointed
Board of Trade Messenger No. 1, and Delivery Clerk; March 2, 1872, appointed
book-keeper, and, while holding the above position, succeeded in learning to
telegraph; resigned Feb. 28, 1873; May 13, 1873, was appointed night operator at
Morton, Ill., for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad; June 6,1873,
appointed ticket agent and operator at Lake, Milwaukee Co., Wis.; June 27, 1874,
appointed operator at Kinnikinic Station, in the city of Milwaukee; July 28,
1874, resigned on account of ill health, and went to New York City; Sept. 20,
1874, was appointed night operator at Binghamton, N. Y., (Albany & Susquehanna
Railroad; Sept. 25,1874, by request of his parents, resigned and returned to his
home; Oct. 13, 1874, appointed relieving operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad; Dec. 8, 1874, appointed ticket and freight agent and
telegraph operator at Truesdell Station, Kenosha Co., Wis.; Dec. 22, 1874,
appointed agent for the American Express Company; March 10, 1879, appointed U.S.
Postmaster.

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Extracted from:

THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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