In 1934, Ralph E. Furbay and Homer D. Sommer incorporated the Furbay-Sommer Company with the help of 37 other stockholders. In this, the knowledge and experience gained from the Moock Electric Supply Company were indispensable, as was the expertise of Gourney Moock Furbay, Phillip Moock’s daughter and student and Mr. Furbay’s wife. These advantages aided the founders in investing $25,800 into capital during the turbulence of the Great Depression. And together the Moock and Furbay families began what would become four generations of electric distribution workers