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Enos Melancthon Barton (December 2, 1842 – May 3, 1916) was an American electrical engineer who, with Elisha Gray, co-founded Western Electric Manufacturing Company . Biography. Born in Lorraine, New York in 1842, Enos M. Barton attended the University of Rochester. During the U.S. Civil War and prior to 1869, Barton was a telegraph operator. [1]
In 1869, Elisha Gray and his partner Enos M. Barton founded Gray & Barton Co. in Cleveland, Ohio to supply telegraph equipment to the giant Western Union Telegraph Company. The electrical distribution business was later spun off and organized into a separate company, Graybar Electric Company , Inc. Barton was employed by Western Union to ...
In this article we present the first of two articles on the life of Enos Barton, the man who helped translate Elisha Gray’s inventions – as well as those of Alexander Graham Bell – into commercial success. Barton’s name is not well known outside of Graybar.
Gray received his first patent in 1867, and he later became a recognized expert in “the technological problems posed by further development of the telegraph industry.”. Barton, born in 1842, started out as a telegraph messenger and operator and knew these problems firsthand.
Mar 3, 2011 · In 1870, Gray buys out former telegraphist Enos M. Barton’s first partner (George Shawk) in a small burglar and fire alarm company and together they form the partnership of Gray and Barton.
The company evolved from a telegraph supply shop bought by Geo. W. Shawk in 1856. Shawk sold out to Enos M. Barton and Elisha Gray in 1869, who then formed Gray & Barton to manufacture fire and burglar alarms and telegraph equipment at 93 St. Clair (498 W. St. Clair).
Aug 2, 2019 · Together with his partner Enos M. Barton he founded a company to supply telegraph equipment to the giant Western Union Telegraph Company. Gray’s inventions and patent costs were financed by a dentist, Dr. Samuel S. White of Philadelphia, who had made a fortune producing porcelain teeth.
