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Theodore Newton Vail (July 16, 1845 – April 16, 1920) was an American businessman who served as the general manager of Bell Telephone Company from 1878 to 1887 and became the founding president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
At age forty, Vail resigned as General Manager of American Bell to become the first President of AT&T. Theodore Vail had the philosophy that customer service–not increasing dividends–was the most important thing to a corporation.
Theodore Newton Vail (born July 16, 1845, Minerva, Ohio, U.S.—died April 16, 1920, Baltimore, Maryland) was an American executive who twice headed the Bell Telephone Company at critical times and played a major role in establishing telephone services in the United States.
Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) was an American entrepreneur who made his fortune in the telephone and mining business and became the first president of the Bell Telephone Company (later American Telegraph and Telephone or AT&T).
Sep 1, 2004 · Business heroes: Theodore Vail. The American serial entrepreneur Theodore Newton Vail was part of a generation of entrepreneurs who changed the face of America and the world at the ...
Theodore N. Vail. American Telephone and Telegraph. 1907–1919. Industry: Communications. Era: 1900. Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor Western Union.
Theodore Newton Vail was born near Minerva, Ohio on 16 July 1845, the son of Davis and Phoebe Vail. He died in Baltimore, Maryland on 16 April 1920. He ...
