Western Union Logo — Western Union is a US-based provider of global money transfer. It offers the ability to quickly transfer money around the world, pay bills and purchase money orders. This transfer is often used by migrant workers used to send money to relatives in their home countries.
Western Union was in 1851 in Rochester by Hiram Sibley (1807-1888) as The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was founded. In 1856 she changed her name to Western Union Telegraph Company (after they had taken over some of its competitors) to connect the telegraph lines from coast to coast to show. Western Union was in 1861 the first transcontinental telegraph line ready. 1865 she founded — for trying to America and Europe via Alaska and Siberia to Moscow to join — the Russian American Telegraph . More