Question: Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, the family of which Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885, maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach?
Context: The Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 called for the facilitation of communication between the east and west coasts of the United States of America.  Hiram Sibley of the Western Union Telegraph Company won the contract.  In 1861, Benjamin Franklin Ficklin joined Hiram Sibley in helping to form the Pacific Telegraph Company of Nebraska.  At the same time, Jeptha Wade was asked by Hiram Sibley to consolidate smaller telegraph companies in California.  While the Pacific Telegraph Company built west from Omaha, Nebraska, the Overland Telegraph Company of California was thus formed and built east from Carson City, Nevada.  With their connection in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 24, 1861, the final link between the east and west coasts of the United States of America was made by telegraph.  The First Transcontinental Telegraph lead to the immediate demise of the Pony Express.  The Pacific Telegraph Company and the Overland Telegraph Company of California were eventually absorbed into the Western Union Telegraph Company. The Colonial Beach Public School System was established as an independent school division in 1907.  Colonial Beach Public Schools is an independent school system within the county of Westmoreland.  CBPS serves the residents of Colonial Beach, a small town of about 3,000 people located on the Potomac River.  Student enrollment in pre K - 12 is approximately 600. James Monroe Family Home Site, also known as James Monroe's Birthplace, is a historic archaeological site located near Oak Grove and Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia.  The site includes the ruins of the Monroe Family Home and birthplace of President James Monroe (1758-1831), which were uncovered in 1976, by a team from the College of William & Mary.  Monroe spent his entire youth working the farm until he left for his education at the College of William & Mary.  The archaeological team uncovered a house foundation measuring 20 feet by 58 feet.  The known 1845 etchings of the birth home indicate a small four room, rough cut wooden farm house with few outbuildings on a 500-acre farm filled with wetlands.  The archaeological study clearly indicated that James Monroe's beginnings were humble. Washington and Lee High School, a fully accredited high school in Montross, Virginia, in the United States, is a member school of the Northern Neck District in Region A of the single A division of the Virginia High School League.  Fed by Washington District Elementary, Cople Elementary School, and Montross Middle School, W&L is the larger of two high schools in Westmoreland County, Virginia (smaller Colonial Beach High School being the only other public high school in the county).  As of June, 2011, Washington and Lee High School enrollment was 495 students.  Its vision statement is: "To empower all students to achieve academic excellence, develop exemplary character, and make choices that result in a safe and healthy life". Bell House, also known as the summer home of Alexander Graham Bell, is a historic home located at Colonial Beach, Westmoreland County, Virginia.  It was built between 1883 and 1885, and is a 2 ⁄ -story, five-bay Stick Style frame dwelling.  It features a wraparound porch with turned posts and sawn brackets and a central projecting tower with a pyramidal roof and balcony overhang.  Also on the property are a contributing privy and garage (c. 1930).  Alexander Graham Bell inherited the property in 1907 from his father Alexander Melville Bell, who acquired it in 1886, and held it continuously until 1918.  It is currently for sale as a B&B. The history of AT&T dates back to the invention of the telephone itself.  The Bell Telephone Company was established in 1879 by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.  Bell also established American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885, which acquired the Bell Telephone Company and became the primary phone company in the United States.  This company maintained a monopoly on telephone service in the United States until anti-trust regulators split the company in 1982. In 1860, the Pacific Telegraph Act of 1860 called for the facilitation of communication between the east and west coasts of the United States of America.  Hiram Sibley of the Western Union Telegraph Company won the contract.  In 1861, Benjamin Franklin Ficklin joined Hiram Sibley in helping to form the Pacific Telegraph Company of Nebraska.  At the same time, Jeptha Wade was asked by Hiram Sibley to encourage the consolidation of telegraph companies in California, a process that had been underway there anyway, most notably involving the merger of the two largest intrastate companies following a lawsuit between them, the Alta Telegraph Company and the California State Telegraph Company.  The Overland Telegraph Company of California was thus formed with Horace W. Carpentier of the California State Telegraph Company serving as its president, and it began building east from Carson City, Nevada while its eastern counterpart, the Pacific Telegraph Company began building west from Omaha, Nebraska.   Upon their connection in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 24, 1861, the final link between the east and west coast of the United States of America was made.  The First Transcontinental Telegraph led to the immediate demise of the Pony Express.  The Pacific Telegraph Company of Nebraska and the Overland Telegraph Company of California were eventually absorbed into the Western Union Telegraph Company. Colonial Beach Schools is a small public school located in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.  It is home to an elementary school that houses pre-k through seventh grades and a high school that is home to eighth through twelfth grades.  The town of Colonial Beach is home to about 3,500 residents.  During the 2013-2014 school year, enrollment at Colonial Beach public school system is 640 students.  Colonial Beach High School became accredited by the Southern Association of colleges and the Virginia State Board of Education in 2005. Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States.  The population was 3,542 at the 2010 census.  Possessing the second-largest beachfront in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more accessible to visitors from Washington, D.C. The family of Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach, the Bell House, which still stands today.  Sloan Wilson, author of "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit", retired and died in Colonial Beach.  George Washington, the first President of the United States, was born near here at what is now the George Washington Birthplace National Monument.  s of 2011 , the James Monroe Family Home Site, birthplace of President James Monroe, now has a small monument to him. Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
Answer: Alexander Graham Bell