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Title
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Benjamin Holladay
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Description
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Information on Benjamin Holladay (1819-1887), a pioneer in Western transportation called "the Stage Coach King," born in Kentucky and starting in the riverboat and stagecoach businesses as a youth (with his father, a military colleague of George Washington). He moved to Liberty in 1837 and to Weston, Missouri, in 1838, becoming a Western freighter. Photos, illustrations, and description of his later career, buying out Russell, Majors & Waddell in 1862 as "Missouri's first millionaire," founding the Weston Distillery (later becoming McCormick's Distillery in Weston) and controlling later Western transportation through railroads, Pacific Ocean steamboats, etc.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Photo and entry about Benjamin Holladay, or Ben Holladay (1819-1887) and his stagecoach lines operating as western transportation out of Weston, Missouri and other points west starting in the 1840s.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
