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EARLY TELE PK E HISTOIHY Or YUKON
In 1893 first Central Office in Yukon was located in back of Dr.
J. A. Settle's Drugstore and consisted of one phone and one line.
The first telephone exchange was constructed in 1901 by Dr. Charles
S. Davis, President of Oklahoma Southwestern Telephone Company of
Weatherford, Oklahoma. First switchboard installed in 1901 was the
Stromberg-Carlson magneto type.
On June 1, 1902 the Yukon exchange and a toll line from Oklahoma
City to El Reno were purchased by Pioneer Telephone Company.
In 1903 the 31 subscribers paid a $2.00 monthly business'rate or
a $1.00 residential rate for phone service.
Approximately 40 Yukon residents had purchased the telephone
service by 1904 when the exchange and lines were acquired by Pioneer
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
According to local residents, Elizabeth (Summers) Weller and Sara
Nee (Allen) Ball from about 1915 the central office and switchboard
of the Yukon Telephone service was operated from the second floor of
thiGoodall Building located on north side of Main and 5th Street. The
operators were a Mrs. Shaffer, her two daughters and Pearl Kerr.
A few years later the Yukon Exchange moved to a residence of Molly
Wells which was a rented brick house on Main Street between 5th and
6th Street. Molly Wells was an operator and Mrs. Ralph Ping was chief
operator.
In 1922 Bessie Eichmann was employed as an operator, Molly Wells
was then chief operator until 1925, when Bessie Eichmann became
chief operator.
Elsie Cornell and Velma Ulrich, Tress, Maud and Agnes Snow were
all operators. Maud and Agnes Snow were night operators.Um
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