CONTENTS Rocky Mountain pioneers; Jasper N. Keller, of Texas and New England; VI NOTABLE USERS OF THE TELEPHONE I THE BIRTH OF THE TELEPHONE I am deeply indebted to most of these men for the information which Hibbard, Henry W. Pope, and W. D. Sargent, three veterans who know indispensable men, for instance, as William R. Driver, who has signed Pettengill, of Dallas; Alonzo Burt, of Milwaukee; John Kilgour, of H. N. C. PINE HILL, N. Y., June 1, 1910. III THE HOLDING OF THE BUSINESS telephony in all its phases; George Y. Wallace, the last survivor of the more telephone cheques and larger ones than any other man; Geo. S. IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART is herewith presented; and also to such pioneers, now dead, as O. E. II THE BUILDING OF THE BUSINESS and Geo. F. Durant, of St. Louis. W. T. Gentry, the central figure of the Southeast, and the following V THE EXPANSION OF THE BUSINESS CHAPTER Indianapolis; Caspar E. Yost, of Omaha; James E. Caldwell, of Nashville; names I find have been omitted unintentionally from this book--such Field, of Denver; D. Leet Wilson, of Pittsburg; L. G. Richardson, of expert; C. H. Haskins, of Milwaukee; George F. Ladd, of San Francisco; Madden, the first General Agent; Frank L. Pope, the noted electrical Thomas Sherwin, of Boston; Henry T. Scott, of San Francisco; H. J. presidents of telephone companies: Bernard E. Sunny, of Chicago; E. B. Cincinnati; and Chas. S. Gleed, of Kansas City.