a partnership of business leaders bought Fitch out in 1886 and organized the Spokane Falls Electric Light and Power Company. They ordered a generating plant from Thomas Edison’s company.

that the Edison Electric Light Company was a failure, and that "its employes are being discharged." View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

The “lights were turned on” at the Edison Electric Light Company as it began operation on October 15, 1878. In short, the company provided financial support for Edison’s electric light experiments in ...

The result was an April 13, 1885 charter for The Edison Electric Light Company of York. Philetus F. Wilt sold the Company a portion of his coal yard, along the Northern Central Railway.

That Christmas, the vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company celebrated by wrapping 80 red, white and blue bulbs around the Christmas tree he set up at his home on East 36th Street.