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Bookmark or Share- William B. Waddell (businessman) - WikipediaWilliam Bradford Waddell (1807–1872) is often credited along with Alexander Majors and William Hepburn Russell as the founders, owners, and operators of the Pony Express. He is described as "phlegmatic, stoical, inclined to sulk if displeased, a cautious penny-pincher, and unable to reach a decision without ponderous deliberation."
- Alexander Majors - WikipediaAlexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express, based in St. Joseph, Missouri.
- Names of Those Enslaved by Alexander Majors DiscoveredMajors enslaved at least twenty-two people between 1850 and 1860. These men, women, and children served his family, cleaned his house, raised his children, worked in his gardens and fields, took care of oxen and mules, blacksmithed, and performed backbreaking labor on his properties in Westport, Missouri and Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory.
- Alexander Majors & His Family - Wornall/MajorsAlexander Majors was an entrepreneur who played a prominent role in the economic growth of early Kansas City. He made his fortune in wagon train freighting and co-founded several business ventures, including the Pony Express. Alexander Majors was born in Kentucky in 1814 to a family of farmers.
- The Majors House - Wornall/MajorsThe Alexander Majors House is one only four surviving antebellum houses in Kansas City, Missouri, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1856 for the family of Alexander Majors, the house served as both a family home and as the headquarters for Majors’ successful freighting company.
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