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
Industry in Syracuse, New York and works which were located at the Onondaga Penitentiary by 1879. President of the company was D. F. Hayden and Joseph Flesenger was secretary and treasurer. In 1884, Charles E. Hubbell was president and Joseph Fieslenger was secretary and treasurer. During 1894, the Central City Bolt Company was in operation at Pond Street at the corner of Alvord. John D. Gray moved his shoe factory from Little Falls, New York to Syracuse in 1866. The company was established in 1864 as Gray Bros. Boot & Shoe Mfg., Inc. By September 1910, the Syracuse Shoe Manufacturing Company, located at Walton and