Thomas Edison

While working as a railway newsboy on the Detroit-Port Huron line, Tom Edison often stopped in Mount Clemens. He became friends with station agent J.U. Mackenzie and in 1862 saved Mackenzie's young son from death by a train. In gratitude, Mackenzie taught Tom Edison railroad telegraphy. From this training Tom became a qualified railroad telegrapher and worked during the 1860s in that occupation. Some of his earliest inventions were based on the telegraph.

Mount Clemens, Michigan · United States