Expressman

Express service began in 1839 when William F. Harnden carried packages from Boston to New York, and lines such as Adams and Company and Wells Fargo soon followed. Express companies moved parcels and money quickly and safely, collected payment on delivery and sold money orders.

The 1870 instructions named expressmen with canal men and railroad men as travelers to be counted at home, and in 1900 enumerators were told to tell an expressman from a teamster, drayman or hack driver.