In that same year, Ellen succumbed to tuberculosis.Īfter the Civil War, Plant returned to New York.In 1873, he married Margaret Josephine Loughman. It was the first company Plant purchased. As the rumblings of war intensified in the early part of 1861, the Adams Express Company considered their southern holdings.Plant organized some investors and proposed that he purchase the Adams Express Company’s southern lines.An agreement was reached and Plant reorganized the division as the Southern Express Company. In 1854, Henry and Ellen moved to Augusta, Georgia where he was placed in charge of the Adams Express Company’s southern division of express transportation running throughout South Carolina and Georgia. He eventually secured a position in the Adams Express Company’s New York office. Plant demonstrated acuity for the express shipping business and moved up the ranks in the shipping company. The couple had two children, but only one son, Morton Freeman Plant survived to adulthood. In 1842 he married Ellen Elizabeth Blackstone. He worked on ships running between New York and New Haven.
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Henry began his professional life at a young age working as a captain’s boy for the New Haven Steamboat Company. Raised by hard work and Puritan values, he exhibited these traits throughout his life. At the age of six, he lost his father and younger sister to typhus fever and was raised by his mother, step-father and grandmother. Henry Bradley Plant (Octo– June 23, 1899), founder of the Plant System of railroads and steamship lines, was born into a modest farming family in Branford, Connecticut.
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