Lumen still maintains offices in the former headquarters building. With a loan from business associate Joe Sydney Carter, Clarke purchased the Marion Telephone Company and eventually made it his base of operation as he grew his company through more acquisitions. In 1947, Clarke Williams learned the telephone company in Marion, Louisiana was for sale. In 1946, the Williams' son, Clarke McRae Williams, received ownership of the family's telephone company as a wedding gift. They moved the switchboard to the Williams family front parlor. In 1930, Hogan sold the company, with 75 paid subscribers, to William Clarke and Marie Williams, for $500. The earliest predecessor of Lumen was the Oak Ridge Telephone Company in Oak Ridge, Louisiana, which was owned by F. 1.3 2008 merger with Embarq and name change to CenturyLink.
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