Albert Bishop Chance

{{Infobox officeholder

|birth_name = Albert Bishop Chance

|birth_date = {{birth date|1873|5|26}}

|birth_place = Centralia, Missouri, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|1949|2|8|1873|5|26}}

|death_place = near Saint Petersburg, Florida, U.S.

|spouse = {{marriage|Frances Chance|1898|}}

}}

Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949) was a businessman and the inventor of the first practical earth anchor.https://aarsleff.co.uk/company-news/ground-anchors-history/ Ground Anchors – The History He founded the A.B. Chance Company in 1907 in his hometown of Centralia, Missouri, where he would also become mayor{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98133551/albert-bishop-chance|title=A.B. Chance of Centralia Dies in Florida|work=Moberly Monitor-Index|date=February 8, 1949|access-date=July 23, 2019}} He invented the earth anchor after an ice storm knocked down his parents' company's telephone lines. He was a philanthropist to the University of Missouri, and participated in bringing the first hospital to Boone County. He was inducted into the Boone County Historical Society Hall of Fame in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.columbiatribune.com/a7bf0087-c116-53c9-aa43-f35edaa99b1f.html|title=Historical society names new hall of fame inductees|work=Columbia Daily Tribune|last=Marin|first=Catherine|date=September 22, 2010|access-date=July 23, 2019}} The Albert Bishop Chance House and Gardens were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.{{cite web| url =http://www.dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/79001345.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Albert Bishop Chance House and Gardens | access-date = 2016-09-01|author1=Annabel Howard |author2=Ruth Miller |author3=Maryellen H. McVicker | date=n.d.|publisher=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}}

The A.B. Chance Company would be acquired by Hubbell Incorporated in 1994.https://www.hubbell.com/hubbellpowersystems/en/hps-brands/chance Chance Brand The Chance brand is still sold today.