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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone inventor and patent holder
Thomas A. Watson
Thomas A. Watson
Bell collaborator and co-founder
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
First President of Bell Telephone
Charles Williams, Jr.
Charles Williams, Jr.
Telephone and telegraph manufacturer
Thomas S. Sanders
Thomas S. Sanders
First investor in Bell Telephone
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard
Alexander Graham Bell's wife
Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Graham Bell's father and mentor
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy
Bell promoter (and Hubbard's wife)

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