Thaddeus Lane

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This file appears in: Home Telephone & Telegraph Company Building

Image Courtesy of Durham, Nelson Wayne. History of the City of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Vol. 3. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912.

This file appears in: Home Telephone & Telegraph Company Building

By Lacey Sipos
On December 31, 1886, Spokane had its first telephone exchange and an infrastructure for the technology was established. Thaddeus Lane, an entrepreneur from Ohio, was responsible for the exchange found himself in need of a headquarters. Lane quickly…