Up until 1871, the firm focused on telegraph services and later introduced its money transfer service. It was established as The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company and did not rebrand to Western Union until 1857 this was after the ‘Treaty of Six Nations’ that combined six of the largest telegraph companies across the continental United States. This American multinational service company’s beginnings can be traced back to 1851.
Western Union is a financial transfer system owned and run by a firm of the same name based in Colorado, United States.
