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Dinsmore, William B

president of the Adams Express company, was born in 1810, in Boston, Mass. He made the acquaintance of Alvin Adams, who sent him to New York to take charge of the Adams express business there. He afterward took John Hoey into his employment, and from that time these two men toiled untiringly to build up the Adams Express company. In a few years they had extended the route of the company to all parts of the country. He died April 20, 1888, in New York city.