Alexander Majors

(1814-1900) lived in Nebraska City. Businessman, known for aiding in the settlement of the West from 1840 to 1866 when he co-owned the largest freighting firm in the nation's prairie and mountain region, and co-founded the Pony Express in 1860, which permitted communication from the East to West Coast before completion of telegraph lines. Consult Dictionary of American Biography, Vol 12 (1933) 214-215 and Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders H-M (Greenwood Press, 1983) 847-849.

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