Youngstown's first street lights

[Rick Rowlands]

With George Tod as president, could there be any doubt that brother William's Porter Hamilton engines would be installed in the plant?  If only a Porter Hamilton engine existed today!

[Towntalk]

The Mahoning Electric Light Co.,
YOUNGSTOWN, O.
Capital, - - - $40,000.
DIRECTORS:
George Tod, Chauncey H. Andrews, William J. Hitchcock,
John C. Wick, A. B. Cornell.
OFFICERS :
George Tod, President. A. B. Cornell, Sec'y Treas. and Gen'l Mgr.
Moses Coombs, Jr., Superintendent. Office and Works, 31 7 East Wood street.

Was Incorporated February 2nd, 1886.

Have ordered 150 arc lamps of the Thomson-Houston system. Have ordered two engines, of 90 horsepower each. Have contracted to furnish 125 lights of 2,000 candle-power each, for lighting streets, and are arranging to furnish commercial lights as needed. Porter -Hamilton engines, manufactured by William Tod & Co., Youngstown, Ohio, will be used