American Light and Traction
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| name = American Light and Traction
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|type = Defunct Corporation
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|foundation = 1900
|key_people = Emerson McMillin (founder and president)
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|industry = Energy
|products = Electricity and natural gas
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American Light and Traction was founded in 1900 for the purpose for consolidating the utility industry's small, local power suppliers.{{cite web|url=http://www.nvemc.org/retailchoice.htm|title="Simple Choices" - How Much Will They Cost You?|accessdate=2006-09-06|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061007030058/http://www.nvemc.org/retailchoice.htm|archivedate=7 October 2006|url-status=dead}} By 1901, American Light and Traction owned and controlled over 40 gas producing plants, electric light and traction (streetcar) properties.{{cite web|url=https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/2201/1/V23N03_135.pdf#search=%22%22american%20light%20and%20traction%22%22|title=Emerson McMillin|accessdate=2006-09-06| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060908021911/https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/2201/1/V23N03_135.pdf| archivedate= 8 September 2006 | url-status= live}}
History
- 1900 - founded by Emerson McMillin as president{{cite web|url=http://my.dteenergy.com/aboutUs/20thCentury.html |title=MyDTE Energy - About us - MichCon - The early 1900s |accessdate=2006-09-06 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite journal | last = Goodrich | first = Arthur | title = A Leader Of Modern Industry | journal = The World's Work | volume = II | issue = 5 | pages = 1201–1208 | publisher = Doubleday, Page & Co. | location = New York, NY |date=September 1901 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IF6tNZnhO7wC&pg=PA1201# | accessdate = April 29, 2012}}
- 1935 - enactment of Public Utility Holding Act forced break-up of company due to antitrust provisions regulating integrated utility companies
- 1938 - Michigan Consolidated Gas (MichCon) formed
- 1949 - Michigan Consolidated Gas, the Milwaukee Gas Company, the Michigan-Wisconsin Gas Company, the Austin Field Pipeline Company and the Milwaukee Solvay Company merge to become American Natural Gas Company{{cite web|url=http://my.dteenergy.com/aboutUs/21stCentury.html |title=MyDTE Energy - About us - MichCon - Mid 1900s to present |accessdate=2006-09-06 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- 1981 - MichCon becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Primark
- 1988 - spun off
- 2001 - merger with DTE Energy
External links
- [http://www.dteenergy.com/ DTE Energy home page]
- [http://www.citizen.org/cmep/energy_enviro_nuclear/electricity/deregulation/articles.cfm?ID=4194 Money Harvest: Utility Holding Companies Are Threshing Ratepayers]
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Category:Companies based in Birmingham, Alabama
Category:Defunct electric power companies of the United States