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Bell and his supporters form the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf.
Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner G. Hubbard, "The Father-in-law of the Telephone"
Bell participates in the formal opening of long-distance telephone service between New York and Chicago.
Death of Gardiner Greene Hubbard; Bell is elected President of the National Geographic Society in his stead.
Bell is elected a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution.
Acquiring the American Bell Telephone Compan's business and property, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company becomes the parent company of the Bell System.