George Solon LADD

  General Notes:

Notes from Warren Ladd: of San Francisco, CA. He was educated at the high school at Marshall, MI; was engaged in telegraphing in 1856; was prominent in originating and conducting the first overland telegraph between the Atlantic and the Pacific; became general superintendent and manager of all the telegraphs on the Pacific coast in 1865, and retired in 1873, after which he established and successfully developed many other important enterprises, including larg land reclamations, electrical manufactures, district telegraphs, and finally the extensive telephone company of the Pacific coast, of which he was President. He opened at San Francisco, Feb 14, 1878, the first regular commercial telephone exchange ever started upon the plan which has since been universally adopeted elsewhere.

Passport Application Dated 29 May 1889 New York NY; George Solon Ladd; Born: Marshall Michigan , 27 Aug 1841; Travel to England and Contenent; Permanent Residence: San Francisco CA; Occupation: Capitalist

George married Elizabeth Patterson MILLER on 15 Aug 1872 in San Francisco, San Francisco Co, CA. (Elizabeth Patterson MILLER was born on 30 Nov 1853 in Saint Louis, St. Louis (city), MO and died on an unknown date.)