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The Hall's Safe & Lock Company was an American [1] manufacturer of locks, safes, and bank vaults throughout the second half of the 19th century.. Incorporated by Joseph L. Hall in 1867, the Hall's Safe & Lock Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio quickly grew to become the largest [2] safe and vault manufacturer in the world.
FirstEnergy Corp. is a privately owned electric utility headquartered in Akron, Ohio.It was established when Ohio Edison merged with Centerior Energy in 1997. Its subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in distributing, transmitting, and generating electricity, energy management, and other energy-related services.
Akron-based FirstEnergy and its allies bankrolled one of Ohio's largest corruption scandals. But state prosecutors now say the company should be labeled a victim of its former leaders' actions.
Milton A. Dalton (b. unknown - d. January 18, 1895) of Cincinnati was an American time lock inventor and one of the founders of the Consolidated Time Lock Co. In 1873 he was commissioned by Joseph L. Hall of the Hall's Safe & Lock Co. to interview safe makers and obtain sworn statements from employees to create the ultimate resource and history of the construction of safes and vaults entitled ...
Strong box or strongbox may refer to: ... Strong box, a strongly built and secured casket (decorative box) Safe, a strongly built and secured metal box; Arts ...
Steel plate engraving of George Worthington c. 1860. George Worthington (September 21, 1813 – November 9, 1871) was a 19th-century merchant and banker in Cleveland, Ohio, who founded the Geo. Worthington Company, a wholesale hardware and industrial distribution firm, in 1829 (until 1991 Cleveland's oldest extant business), as well as numerous banking and mining concerns, and contributed to ...
In 1872, needing more room for his expanding company, moved to Canton, Ohio, where most of the post-fire orders were from. Two years later, in 1874, Wells Fargo asked Diebold to make the world's largest vault at the time: a 32-foot-long, 27-foot-wide, 12-foot high vault that was moved to San Francisco on a 47-car-long train.
The Ohio nuclear bribery scandal (2020) is a political scandal in Ohio involving allegations that electric utility company FirstEnergy paid roughly $60 million to Generation Now, a 501(c)(4) organization purportedly controlled by Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives Larry Householder in exchange for passing a $1.3 billion bailout for the nuclear power operator. [1]