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PHP - In a message dated Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:45:11 CST Mark J Cuccia writes: Maybe Wes Leatherock can share with us some of the pre-1930s era of the Southwestern Bell states! :)At one time before I retired I could have found this information,but now I can recall only a small part of it.There was a Missouri & Kansas Telephone Company, a Bell company,which also extended its operations into Oklahoma Territory. Meantimea group of four businessmen in my home town of Perry, Oklahoma,organized a telephone company to operate a line between Perry andPawnee and also a local exchange in Perry. This was, as I recall,originally named the Arkansas Valley Telephone Company, later changingits name to the Pioneer Telephone Company.The Pioneer Telephone Company expanded to various parts of theterritory, including to Oklahoma City, where both Pioneer and M & Khad exchanges. Apparently both were losing money in Oklahoma, and in1905 the Bell officers agreed to provide major financing to thePioneer Company and turn over the M&K properties in Oklahoma to it.The Pioneer Telephone Company changed its name to Pioneer Telephone &Telegraph Company and thus became part of the Bell System.At one time, in the historical files in my office, I had theoriginal "license agreement" between Pioneer T&T and AT&T, thedocument that made a company part of the "Bell System."Three of the four men who organized the original company in Perrybecame executives of what eventually was merged into SouthwesternBell, one of them become SWBT president.As I recall, M & K did not include the eastern part of Missouri(St.Louis area), but I don't remember the name of the company thatoperated there.There was a Southwestern Telephone & Telegraph Company, which isseems to me operated in Texas, and perhaps into Arkansas.In 1917 all the various companies in the territory took the name"Southwestern Bell Telephone Company," but at least at first continuedas separate corporations. Exactly when they were merged could neverbe determined with exactitude.The various corporations continued in existence, however.Probably in the 1970s or early 1980s the lawyers asked me to look intothis, since someone had sued the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company,an Oklahoma corporation. This corporation still had a legal existenceand had an annual meeting once a year in the state vice president'soffice.The lawyers wanted to, and did, reply that SWBT, an Oklahomacorporation, could not have been at fault since it had no employees,no motor vehicles, and no operations.The other lawyer eventually figured out he should sue theSouthwestern Bell Telephone Company, a Missouri corporation.As I recall, there were over 100 telephone companies in Oklahomawhich eventually became part of the Pioneer T&T Company, laterSouthwestern Bell (Oklahoma) and, of course, even later, the Oklahomaoperations of SWBT (Missouri).Probably similar aggregations occurred in the other states,which would suggest more than 1,000 companies merged or were boughtout to form SWBT.Wes Leatherockwesrock@aol.com
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