Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949) was a businessman and the inventor of the first practical earth anchor.
Chance Company in 1907 in his hometown of Centralia, Missouri, where he would also become mayor[2] He invented the earth anchor after an ice storm knocked down his parents' company's telephone lines.
He was a philanthropist to the University of Missouri, and participated in bringing the first hospital to Boone County.
He was inducted into the Boone County Historical Society Hall of Fame in 2010.
Chance Company would be acquired by Hubbell Incorporated in 1994.