1957
Loy Clark Pipeline Co. is founded. It was the first pipeline construction company in Oregon and had just 12 employees. Capital Electric Construction Co. is also founded in 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri.
1947
Oregon Electric Group, now known as OEG, Inc., in Portland, Oregon, is founded. Today, it is one of the largest electrical contracting companies in the Northwest.
1935
Major league baseball played its first night game at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. Wagner-Smith, today part of MDU Construction Services Group, installed the stadium lights. President Franklin Roosevelt flipped the switch to turn on the lights by remote from the White House.
1924
MDU Construction Services Group’s parent company was founded in 1924 as a small electric utility serving a handful of farm communities on the border of Montana and North Dakota.
1917
Wagner-Smith Equipment Co., as it is known today, got its start in 1917 as The Charles M. Kelso Company.
