What is Cyrus West Field?
[[File:CyrusField3.jpg|thumb|right|200px|{{Center|Cyrus West Field}}]] '''Cyrus West Field''' (November 30, 1819 – July 12, 1892) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Businessperson|businessman]] and [[Finance|financier]] who, along with other [[entrepreneur]]s, created the [[Atlantic Telegraph Company]] and laid the first [[Transatlantic telegraph cable|telegraph cable]] across the [[Atlantic Ocean]] in 1858.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-transatlantic-telegraph-cable-completed |title=1858 First transatlantic telegraph cable completed |publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC.|access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> Field was born in [[Stockbridge, Massachusetts]]. When he was 16 years old, he moved to [[New York City]].<ref name=PBS>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/cable/peopleevents/p_field.html |title=Cyrus Field (1819-1892) |publisher=PBS Online/WGBH |access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> There he [[apprentice]]d in the largest [[Department store|dry goods]] [[business]] in the city.<ref name=PBS/> He went to work for the paper [[wholesale]]r E. Root and Company. When the company failed he bought up the [[stock]]. He built it up as Cyrus W. Field and Company. He became one of the city's richest men.<ref name=PBS/> Profits permitted him to retire at the age 34 with a fortune of $250,000. Bad investments left Field without most of his [[Wealth|fortune]] at the end of his life.<ref name=LTK>{{cite web |url=http://biography.yourdictionary.com/cyrus-west-field |title=Cyrus West Field Facts |publisher=LoveToKnow, Corp. |access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref> He died in New York City on July 12, 1892.<ref name=LTK/> == References == {{reflist}} {{commons}} <br> {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Cyrus W.}} [[Category:Businesspeople from Massachusetts]] [[Category:1819 births]] [[Category:1892 deaths]]