Calument Gas and Eletric Company

Calumet Electric Company, 1912 date of incorporation; was incorporated by a group of Gary businessmen to supply power for the expansion of the Gary Railway Co They wanted power extended to Crown Point, Valparaiso and LaPorte.

Calumet eventually attracted the interest of a large holding company, the multibillion-dollar Midland Utilities Company, managed by Samuel Insull, a former business secretary of Edison and a titan of the public utilities industry. In 1923, Midland acquired Northern Indiana Gas,

1925 - Calumet Gas and Electric Company will move into their room about Nov. 1st. Bank Building

In 1926, Samuel Insull combined Northern Indiana Gas & Electric with his Calumet Electric Co., forming the Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

INSULL GROUP BUYS 6 POWER CONCERNS; Calumet Gas and Electric Co. Takes Over Local Organizations in Indiana. NOW SERVES 73 LOCALITIES Plans $1,387,000 Capital Increase to Finance Expansion -- Other Mid-Western Mergers Seen.

Credit... The Insull interests have added further to their utility holdings, already representing a value of about $800,000,000, by the purchase of six local light and power concerns in Indiana. The Calumet Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of the Midland Utilities Company, has acquired the properties and has been authorized to increase its capital $1,387,000 to finance its expansion program - June 13 1925 New York Times

1926 Feb 10 - New Name Selected For Public Service Co.

The Name of the Calument Gas and Eletric Company serving this community, has been changed to Northern Indiana Public Sercice Company

Because the Company has grown by purchase and extensions to include properties extending across northern Indiana from Illinois to the Ohio stateline, the new name more accurate;u describes the terrritory new served by this company.

The Northern Indiana Public Service Company gives service to 83 communities in Northern Indiana. The compan owns the 132,00 volt super-power line which extends from the Indiana-Illinois state line to Michigan City and an extension to that line which is not under construction which will interconnect this company with powers systems extending to Virgina, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. successor to Calumet Gass and Electric Company - Culver Citizen