The firm begins

It lets the family begin with a date, an address, and two brothers standing under one shared name.

A New Firm of Electrical Engineers facsimile — The first public notice of the brothers' office

Trade-press firm notice / August 16, 1890

A small notice with the weight of a beginning

A few lines in a trade paper give the family its first public footing: Charles and Frank together, one office, and a promise to take responsibility for electrical and steam plants.

Where this page comes from Electrical World, August 16, 1890

Why it changes the telling It lets the family begin with a date, an address, and two brothers standing under one shared name.

How far it carries us It proves the office existed and what kind of work it offered. It does not prove a completed project by itself.

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A New Firm of Electrical Engineers

A NEW FIRM OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Electrical World, August 16, 1890 Local OCR note.

A New Firm of Electrical Engineers.—Messrs. Charles E. and Frank A. Pattison have organized the firm of Pattison Brothers, with offices at 135 and 137 Broadway, this city, to do estimate and contract work upon electrical and steam plants. Mr. Charles E Pattison has been associated with the engineering department of the Edison Company in this city for several years, and has been engaged in the work of construction on the Edison up town stations under the saperintendence of Mr. Vail. Mr. Frank A. Pattison was formerly in charge of the Edison underground work at New Orleans, La.