Franklin Leonard Pope was born in Great Barrington, Mass. on December 2, 1840, the son of Ebenezer Pope, and Electra Wainwright. He was a telegrapher, electrical engineer. explorer, inventor, and patent attorney. He was a major contributor to the technological advances of the 19th century (see)[1] He was one of the leaders of the explorations related to the Collins Overland Telegraph (see)[2].He married Sarah Amelia Dickinson on August 6, 1873, and they had four children. He died as a result of an accidental electrocution in the basement of his home in Great Barrington Mass. on October 13, 1885 at the age of 55.
Pope, who was retained, voluntarily resigned his position in order that a fellow operator, who had a family, could keep his job.
During this two year assignment, Pope created maps and drawings of every route, the types of insulators, the exact placement of the wires on the poles and the instruments and batteries that were used in each and every office.
Pope, with his intimate knowledge of the routes, disguised himself as a farm laborer and took a portable telegraph instrument, along with some tools hidden in a bag of oats, and headed out to find the problems.
FranklinLeonardPope was born on December 2, 1840 Great Barrington, Massachusetts was first exposure to the telegraph in the late 1840's when a telegraph line was run through his town.
In 1864 Pope was appointed Assistant Engineer and Chief of Explorations in British America with the responsibility to survey, chart and map the route from Vancouver to the Yukon River approximately 1500 miles.
In October of 1895 Pope (55 years old) was electrocuted when he accidentally made contact with his right hand to the case of the converter.
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