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American industrialist and philanthropist

Jeptha Homer Wade (August 11, – August 9, ) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph.

Wade was born in Romulus, New York, the youngest of nine children of Jeptha and Sarah (Allen) Wade. He made the first Daguerreotypes west of New York, was a portrait painter,^[1] and moved to Adrian, Michigan, in before developing an interest in the telegraph.

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In , he was subcontractor for J.J. Speed and constructed a telegraph line from Detroit to Jackson, Michigan, where Wade and his son operated the telegraph office.

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He also connected Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, Cleveland to Cincinnati (Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, the Wade Line), and others.

Wade moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in with his wife and only child, Randall P.

Wade (–). Eventually Randall would supervise the construction of two adjoining mansions with a shared d