On This Day in Telephone History March 29TH 1872 the firm of Gray and Barton became Western Electric Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, through consolidation with another of the Western Union Telegraph Company's shops. The Company began in 1869 as the firm of Gray and Barton. Its founders were Elisha Gray, a college professor with an inventive turn of mind; Enos Barton, a former Western Union telegrapher; and General Anson Stager, vice-president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. By 1872 the firm had grown into the $300,000 Western Electric Manufacturing Company.

On This Day in Telephone History March 29TH 1872

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On This Day in Telephone History March 29TH 1872 the firm of Gray and Barton became Western Electric Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, through consolidation with another of the Western Union Telegraph Company’s shops.

The Company began in 1869 as the firm of Gray and Barton. Its founders were Elisha Gray, a college professor with an inventive turn of mind; Enos Barton, a former Western Union telegrapher; and General Anson Stager, vice-president of the Western Union Telegraph Company. By 1872 the firm had grown into the$300,000 Western Electric Manufacturing Company.