Denver County CO Archives Biographies.....Black, William Cormack 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1919)

WILLIAM CORMACK BLACK.

    William Cormack Black, superintendent of the fourth district of the western
division of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, with office at Denver, was born
on the 5th of October, 1859, in Detroit, Michigan, a son of William Austin and
Agnes B. (Reid) Black. He acquired his early education in the schools of
Detroit, Michigan, and made his initial step in the business world as a
messenger with the Western Union Telegraph Company of Detroit, so serving in the
year 1874. The following year he was advanced to the position of bookkeeper by
the Western Union and in 1876 became a telegrapher for that corporation and so
continued until 1884. In the latter year he severed his connection with the
Western Union to enter into active relations with the Postal Telegraph-Cable
Company, being made chief operator at Detroit and so continuing until 1890. He
was then made night manager of the Postal at Denver and filled that position for
two years. In 1893 he occupied the position of manager with the Postal Telegraph
at Denver, subsequent to which time he was made superintendent of the seventh
district of the western division, so serving from 1894 until 1914. In 1915 he
was appointed to the position of superintendent of the fourth district of the
western division of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company and has acted in that
capacity since. His course has been marked by an orderly progression that has
brought him from a humble position to one of notable prominence and
responsibility in the field of telegraphic service.

    On the I4th of October, 1891, Mr. Black was married to Miss Lucie J. Miller,
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller, of Muskegon, Michigan, and to them
have been horn two sons, Charles M. and William C, Jr. The former wedded Mary B.
Gould of Newton Center, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in the class of 1918 as civil engineer and is now first
lieutenant in the Seventy-first Artillery, C. A. C, Thirty-sixth Brigade, doing
duty in Prance. Mr. Black of this review has no marked political, lodge or club
associations. In fact he has held himself independent of all these things and
also of church membership, although he inclines toward the Presbyterian church.
His efforts and attention have been concentrated upon his business duties and
obligations and his close application and well defined energy have brought him
to the creditable position which he now fills.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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