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Holladay, Ben

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Holladay, Ben (1819–1887)

US stagecoach operator and financier. He furnished supplies for the US Army during the Mexican War. He entered into trade with Salt Lake City and then with California. He bought the Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express for US$100,000 and reorganized these stagecoach expresses and held the mail contracts. His business suffered from Indian uprisings (1864–65) and he sold it to Wells Fargo and Company in 1866. He entered into steamship and railway companies but he was financially devastated in 1873. He retired in 1876.

Born in Carlisle County, Kentucky, he moved to Missouri and operated a store and hotel. Two of his daughters married titled Europeans.



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