586) Cyrus W. Field

Cyrus West Field (1819 – 1892). American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

- "At the age of 34, lithe, red-haired Cyrus W. Field had retired from the paper business a rich man." https://books.google.it/books…

- "He had bright red hair like his grandfather, Cyrus West FIELD." http://atlantic-cable.com/Field/FieldDescendants.htm