1. Lewis Waterman held multiple fountain pen patents and was the founder of the Waterman Pen Company.
11 Facts About Lewis Waterman
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Holland abandoned his company after only six weeks; Lewis Waterman stepped in and took over, fitting the pens with a simplified feed of his own design.
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Lewis Waterman was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Lewis Waterman was born in Decatur, New York on November 20,1836.
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Lewis Waterman's father was a wagon maker who died when Lewis was three.
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Lewis Waterman chiefly taught Pitman shorthand, which took him to Illinois and Virginia.
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Lewis Waterman began selling insurance in 1862, starting in Michigan but relocating to Boston in 1864.
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In New York, Lewis Waterman attended lectures at the American Institute of Phrenology, from which he graduated that same year.
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Lewis Waterman remained keen on phrenology until the end of his life.
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Lewis Waterman remarried in 1872, and was back in the insurance business in Boston from 1875 to 1877.
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Lewis Waterman died in Brooklyn on May 1,1901, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, MA.