[Newspaper]
Publication: The Salem Daily News
Salem, OH, United States
vol. II, no. 188, p. 1, col. 4
Death of a Famous Millionaire
Cleveland, O., Aug. 11 - Jeptha H. Wade, the well-known millionaire, died in this city Saturday, after an illness of four days, aged seventy-nine years. He constructed the first line of telegraph west of Buffalo and soon began to build lines on his own account and invented the famous Wade insulator, which is still in use. The outcome of combining his lines with competing lines was the formation of the Western Union Telegraph Company, he being its first president. He left a fortune estimated at $5,000,000.
