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telegrapher
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[ noun ] (telecommunications) someone who transmits messages by telegraph
Synonyms Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)As the robbers leave the looted train , the film suddenly cuts_back to the station , where the telegrapher 's little daughter arrives with her father 's dinner_pail only to find him bound on the floor . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)In 1846 Matthew_B._Goodwin , jeweler and watchmaker , became the town 's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox_House '' or `` one door north of the Bank , Manchester , Vermont '' . Goodwin was telegrapher for the `` American_Telegraph_Company '' and the `` Troy_and_Canada_Junction_Telegraph_Company '' . Telegraphers at the Depot at this time were Aaron_C._Burr and Mark_Manley of `` Burr_and_Manley '' , dealers in lumber and dry_goods . The Village office of Western_Union with George_Towsley as manager and telegrapher continued in Hard 's drugstore until 1905 . |
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