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Company Details
Western Electric Manufacturing Company
This company was formed in Chicago in 1872 by Elisha Gray, Enos Barton, and Western Union divisional superintendent Anson T. Stager; Western Union held a one-third interest in the firm that it later sold to American Bell Telephone Company. Western Electric manufactured and sold Edison's electric pen and duplicating press and also manufactured Edison telephones for Western Union.