THOMAS A. EDISON - DOCUMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1925 CO-SIGNED BY: GOVERNOR CHARLES EDISON - HFSID 253904

THOMAS A. EDISON. Typed DS: "Thos A Edison" as Director, 1¼p, front and verso, 8x11. West Orange, N.J., 1925 June 11. Countersigned: "Charles Edison" as Chairman, "Fred W. Roh" as Assistant Secretary (initialed "HE" by Howard Eckert, Secretary) and "H.F. Miller", "J.V. Miller" and "Henry Lanahan" as Directors. "Minutes of a Meeting of the Board of Directors of/the Edison Storage Battery Company". Two resolutions were passed, one concerning the leasing of a portion of the second floor at 702 Beacon Street, Boston for three years at $170 per month, the other relating to tax audits and Internal Revenue Laws. The Edison Storage Battery Company was organized in New Jersey on May 27, 1901 to develop, manufacture and sell Edison's alkaline storage batteries. It produced batteries for mining lamps, train lighting and signaling, submarines, electric vehicles and other uses. The company had its own research department and sales force, but it also sold batteries through separate sales companies, including the Edison Storage Battery Supply Company and Miller Reese Hutchison, Inc. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. was incorporated on January 27, 1896 as the National Phonograph Company, then reorganized and newly incorporated as Thomas A. Edison, Inc. on February 28, 1911. Over time it consolidated most of Edison's companies. In June 1932, seven years after this document was signed and eight months after the death of Thomas Edison, the Edison Storage Battery Company merged with Thomas A. Edison, Inc. The inventor's son, CHARLES EDISON, Chairman of the Board of Directors, later served as FDR's Secretary of the Navy (1939-1940) and Governor of New Jersey (1941-1944). Lightly rippled from mounting strip at margin on signature side. Lightly shaded.