Thomas Sanders sold his stock for somewhat less than a million dollars, and presently lost most of it in a Colorado gold mine.

His mother, who had been so good a friend to Bell, had her fortune doubled.

Gardiner G.Hubbard withdrew from business life, and as it was impossible for a man of his ardent temperament to be idle, he plunged into the National Geographical Society.

He was a Colonel Sellers whose dream of millions (for the telephone) had come true; and when he died, in 1897, he was rich both in money and in the affection of his friends.
Charles Williams, in whose workshop the first telephones were made, sold his factory to the Bell Company in 1881 for more money than he had ever expected to possess.

Thomas A.Watson resigned at the same time, finding himself no longer a wage-worker but a millionaire.