IBEW Timeline

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    The Dawn Of Electricity

    This is when the telegraph was invented. It was magnificent back then.
  • Creation

    Creation

    The creation of ibew. Henry Miller founded the organization. This was in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • J.T. Kelly

    J.T. Kelly

    J.T. Kelly, the first secretary of the IBEW said of Miller, “No man could have done more for our union in its first years
    than he did.”
  • First Meeting

    First Meeting

    The First Convention was in St. Louis
    on November 21, 1891.
  • The death of Henry Miller

    The death of Henry Miller

    On July 10, 1896, Henry Miller died from an
    accident while working for the Potomac
    Electric Power Company. He got an electrical shock and fell from
    a power pole, and hit his head.
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    New era of change

    This is when they had uninterrupted telephone connection