Waterman pens Waterman pens The Waterman pen company is a major manufacturer of luxury fountain pens. Established in 1884 in New York City by Lewis Edson Waterman, it is one of the few remaining first-generation fountain pen companies, as Waterman S.A.. Since 2000 it has been owned by the American group Newell Brands subsidiary Sanford L.P. Lewis Edson Waterman's entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently been properly researched. Waterman was working as a pen salesman in New York for a new company founded in the spring of 1883 by a volatile inventor named Frank Holland. Holland abandoned his company after
German Society of the City of New York German Society of the City of New York The German Society of the City of New York was established in 1784, and was concerned with the smooth immigration of the Germans into the USA as well as the bureaucratic affairs of German-Americans. Founded on the model of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by, among others, John Christoph Kunze and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , the company initially supported the German-American churches in New York. With the introduction of large immigration waves from the 1830s, the "German Society" dealt with the smooth running of immigration. This included the fact