# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-wells-q364220
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:38:58.679Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-wells-q364220"
name: "Henry Wells"
slug: "henry-wells-q364220"
description: "Henry Wells was an American businessman important in the history of both the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company. Wells worked as a freight agent before joining the express business. His companies, which were the predecessors of American Express and Wells Fargo, competed with the United States Post Office by carrying mail at less than the government rate. In higher education, Wells was the founder of Wells College in Aurora, New York."
tagline: "American businessman (1805-1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lithograph_portrait_of_Henry_Wells_of_Wells%2C_Fargo_%26_Co.'s_Express_(c._1878)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1805-12-12"
deathDate: "1878-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.57787066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wells"
    title: "Henry Wells"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wells"
    title: "Henry Wells"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%92%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%81"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump