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3 unusual facts about Hiram Sibley


Hiram Sibley

His home near Rochester, the Hiram Sibley Homestead, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and his Rochester home is included in the East Avenue Historic District.

Sibley funded the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts, as well as the building which housed it, Sibley Hall, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

In conjunction with one Perry Collins, he later hoped to build a telegraph line from Alaska to Russia through the Bering Strait, the so-called Russian American Telegraph, but this dream collapsed with the establishment of a cross-Atlantic line to Europe.



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