Business
|
Location
|
Year(s)
|
Notes
|
| Badger
Telegraph & Telephone Co. |
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?
- 1909 - ? |
incorporated
in 1909 (to provide long-distance service to neighboring communities) |
| Janesville
Electric Light Co. |
----- |
1880
- 1908 - ? |
incorporated
March 18, 1880 |
| Janesville
Telephone Co. |
----- |
1880
- 1921 |
first
telephone company in city; opened with 16 subscribers in March
of 1880; had 58 subscribers by Jan. 21, 1881; became part of
the Bell system |
| Mutual
Life Insurance Co. |
----- |
1858
- Abt. 1861 |
life
insurance company; later became Northwestern Mutual |
| New
Light Gas Co. |
----- |
1853
- 1936 |
Hiram
Merrill, president; sold to Union Gas Improvement Co. of Philadelphia,
PA, in 1908 (which operated it as a subsidiary); eventually sold
to Wisconsin Power & Light Co. |
| Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance Co. |
----- |
Abt.
1861 - present |
life
insurance company; began in 1858 in Janesville; later moved to
Milwaukee |
| Rock
County Telephone Co. |
----- |
1898
- 1921 |
had
about 1,500 subscribers in 1908; merged with Wisconsin Telephone
Co. in 1921 |
| Wisconsin
Telephone Co. |
301
E. Milwaukee St. (1912) |
1892
- 1921 |
granted
a franchise by the city in 1892; had about 900 subscribers in
1908; merged with Rock County Telephone Co. in 1921 |
