A.C. Dunham Organizes the American Electric Company

Title

A.C. Dunham Organizes the American Electric Company

Description

A.C. Dunham and other prominent Linen Company directors organize the American Electric Company. One of their largest contracts is installing arc lights at the massive Amoskeag mill complex in New Hampshire in August of 1881.

Source

Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 55.

Date

1880-05

Contributor

dore_lindsey

Mediator

horn_allen

Collection

Digital Windham

Citation

“A.C. Dunham Organizes the American Electric Company,” History Digitized, accessed May 13, 2025, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/785.