The year: 1912. The place: Fort Madison, Iowa. Walter A. Sheaffer takes his grand idea of a pen-filling apparatus that utilizes a lever system and, with his life savings, founds the W.A. Sheaffer company. The physical space of the company is a modest…
The year: 1912. The place: Fort Madison, Iowa. Walter A. Sheaffer takes his grand idea of a pen-filling apparatus that utilizes a lever system and, with his life savings, founds the W.A. Sheaffer company. The physical space of the company is a modest…
The success of the pin business eventually led the Oakville Pin Company to be acquired as a part of Scovill Manufacturing Company in 1923. Scovill Manufacturing was known as largest brass manufacturing companies based in Waterbury. For many years, it…