Lehigh Power Securities Corporation.

Lehigh Power Securities Corp. was incorporated in Delaware July 19, 1917, as a holding company. Its organizers, Electric Bond and Share Co., created it as part of their program to integrate electric and gas utility companies in eastern Pennsylvania.

The corporation acquired control of the stock of Lehigh Navigation Electric Co. and through this firm the stock of The Harwood Electric Co. and its subsidiaries. It also acquired control of Lehigh Valley Transit Co., Lehigh Valley Light & Power Co., and of the companies formerly controlled by Northern Central Co. A June 4, 1920 consolidation formed Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.

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