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By 1871, Tweed was a member of the board of the Harlem Gas Light Company, a precursor to the Consolidated Edison Company. [5] In 1884, six gas companies combined into the Consolidated Gas Company. In 1901, the Consolidated Gas Company bought Edison Illuminating Company, which had been founded by Thomas Edison in 1880, first supplying ...
In 1937, Detroit City Gas Company merged with Grand Rapids Gas Light Company, Washtenaw Gas Company and Ann Arbor Gas Company to form Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (MichCon). The merger, approved in 1938 by state and federal regulators, created one gas provider for most of the southern half of the Lower Peninsula.
One Woodward Avenue (formerly known as the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company Building and American Natural Resources Building) is a 28-story office skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Located in the city's Financial District , it overlooks Hart Plaza and the International Riverfront .
"A History of the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore," written in 1928 by Delbert B. Lowe, recounts the origins of this groundbreaking utility and the pre-natural-gas ...
In 2006, Consol spun off its subsidiary CNX Gas as a standalone company, but retained 83 percent of the new company's shares. [17] On June 28, 2006, Consol Energy entered the S&P 500 replacing Knight-Ridder. [18] In 2007, CNX Gas also began investing heavily in natural gas exploration in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania.
The Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building is a historic office building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.It is the former headquarters of the old Consolidated Gas, Light and Electric Power Company of Baltimore City, which was a merger at the turn of the 20th century of the former century old Gas Light Company of Baltimore with several other formerly competing gas and ...
In 1884, Gawtry and Francklyn led the merger of six gas companies (including the Municipal Gas Light Company, the New York Gas Light Company, the Manhattan Gas Light Company, and the Metropolitan Gas Light Company) which combined into the Consolidated Gas Company on November 10, 1884. Gawtry he was a member of the first board of trustees and ...
He returned to the private sector as president of the Consolidated Gas Company, later known as Consolidated Edison. He was also one of the chairmen of the Con Edison Energy Museum, which is now closed. He lived at his home "Harbor Lights" in Halesite, Long Island until his death in October 1940.