L.K. Comstock & Company, Inc.
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| December 11, 1925 - L.K. Comstock resigns as president. Earle Stewart is elected president and leads the company for the next 30 years. Under his leadership, Comstock begins to diversify its work and expand its business outside the New York metropolitan area. Stewart also begins establishing a number of spin-off firms that use the Comstock name but are not owned by the parent company. |
Charles L. Scharfe, Sr. (upper right) and fellow electricians, 1921, while Scharfe was working as an electrician and foreman for the E.J. Reid Company |
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| Late December 1925 - Two weeks following Stewart's appointment as president, L.K. Comstock is elected as chairman, a position he holds until October of 1941. |
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| 1926 - Louis K. Comstock receives the electrical industry's McGraw Award. The citation references his efforts in pioneering cooperative relations between management and labor. "He has devoted himself with persistent purpose to the promotion of better understanding between the electrical construction industry and the labor it employs." |
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| 1926 - Canadian Comstock passes from U.S. to Canadian ownership. The company retains "Comstock" in its name, an indication of the good will already achieved by the U.S. company. |
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