In what year did American businessman Cyrus W. Field die: 1876, 1892, 1895 or 1902?

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Cyrus West Field was an American businessman and financier who, with other entrepreneurs, founded the Atlantic Telegraph Company and oversaw the first successful laying of a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858.

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