Question about last night's "final Jeopardy" question on "Jeopardy" ?

Question

We didn't get the answer because we were in a sports bar

and the sound was turned down, it didn't have closed

captioning, and all 3 contestants answered

it wrong. The question was, "This company, with its origins

in the year 1874, had one million stockholders in the year 1951." (The year 1874 may be wrong, but I remember the

1951 right.) All 3 contestants guessed General Electric,

which was wrong, my guess was Sears Roebuck and Co.,

nobody else in our group could come up with an answer.

I know someone out there will know this one. Thanks for

your help!

Answer 1

The answer was "AT&T". There were telegraphs during the Civil War

Answer 2

AT&T may ring a Bell.