Western Electric Manufacturing Company

Notable Position	Person	From	To
Owner	Elisha Gray	1869

Y/M/D	Description	Association	Composition	Place	Locale	Food	Event
Y/M/D	Description	Association	Composition	Place	Locale	Food	Event
1869/01/00	Shawk and Barton begin manufacturing electrical equipment at 93 St Clair Street in Cleveland. Enos M Barton and George Shawk, who each invest $2,500 in the company, had bought the tools and stock from Western Union's Cleveland shop.	Established
1869/06/00	Elisha Gray, a professor of physics at Oberlin College, buys George Shawk's share of Shawk and Barton in Cleveland.	History
1872/00/00	Western Union buys a one-third interest in Gray and Barton and renames it Western Electric Manufacturing Company.	History
1926/00/00	Western Electric Manufacturing Co establishes the Graybar Electric Company, capitalized at $9,000,000, endowing it with 59 distributing offices in cities across the United States.	History

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