GSU History by J. B. Coltharp

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  1  1888 to 1900

 11  Spindletop 1901 Beaumont booms

 13 Comments by O.C.Brandt on 1906-08

 15 We change to 60 Hz (Halfway down page)

 17 Stone & Webster buys us in 1911

 18 World War I

 21 World War I ends. Load grows (Near bottom of page)

 25 We need more power. Neches Station is built.

 26 October 1929 comes along

 27 Table showing "Total Cumulative Number of Electrical Apparatus installed in Beaumont and vicinity 1927-34"

 28 Addendum for 1934 to 1955

 29 GSU becomes an indepedent company in 1947

 31 Directors and Officers in 1955

 33 GSU Name Chronology

 35 Office Locations of Light & Power Industry in Beaumont (1889 - 1911)

 36 Presidents or Managers 1893 - 1955

 37 Sequence of Men in Contact with Electrical Distirution & Transmission

 40 Electrical (Technology) Chronology (1862 - 1954)