| Birth Name: | Albert Bishop Chance |
| Birth Date: | 26 May 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Centralia, Missouri, U.S. |
| Death Place: | near Saint Petersburg, Florida, U.S. |
Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949) was a businessman and the inventor of the first practical earth anchor.[1] He founded the A.B. 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.[3] The Albert Bishop Chance House and Gardens were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[4]
The A.B. Chance Company would be acquired by Hubbell Incorporated in 1994.[5] The Chance brand is still sold today.