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Scott Paper Company Plant in Chester, Pennsylvania 1915 newspaper ad for the toilet paper made by the company. Scott Paper was founded in 1879 in Philadelphia by brothers E. Irvin and Clarence Scott, and is often credited as being the first to market toilet paper sold on a roll. They began marketing paper towels in 1907, and paper tissues in ...
They had two children, Arthur Hoyt Scott and Margaret, wife of Owen Moon. Around 1878, the paper commission failed, and the family lived in Camden, New Jersey, Irvin and brother Clarence Scott took the remaining proceeds and formed Scott Paper Company. Irvin reportedly borrowed $2,000 from his father-in-law and added the $300 the two brothers ...
Philadelphia New Observer / Philadelphia Observer: 1976 [24] current: Weekly [24] ISSN 0890-8435; LCCN sn8602567, sn94093032; OCLC 14552816, 33390581; Official site; Philadelphia: North Philly Free Press: 1982 [25] 1983 [25] Monthly [25] ISSN 2642-9888; LCCN 2013254349; OCLC 664611332; Philadelphia: Odd Fellows’ Journal: 1897 [26] 1917 [26 ...
G. Willing Pepper (1909-April 21, 2001), known as “Wing” was a corporate executive, the former president of the Scott Paper Company, and a notable Philadelphia philanthropist. He combined active philanthropy with the use of commercial skills to improve public health. Pepper was a member of old Philadelphia family.
In 1916 McCabe joined Scott Paper as a $15-a-week salesman [2] [12] when he was 23 years old. Scott Paper was then a small one-mill paper company. In 1917, McCabe left Scott temporarily to serve in World War I. He enlisted as a private and advanced to captain by 1919. McCabe returned to civilian life and to the Scott Paper Company at the age of 26.
International Plaza, formerly known as Scott Plaza, is an office complex in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. [1] It is the former corporate headquarters of the Scott Paper Company. The facility is next to the Philadelphia International Airport and south of Pennsylvania Route 291. [2]
Rifle Paper Co. partnered with The Company Store to offer a full bedding suite featuring nutcrackers and holly bushes. We love the percale sheet set in white, available in sizes twin through king ...
Joseph C Gayetty [disputed – discuss]. Joseph C. Gayetty (c.1827 – May 2, 1895) was an American inventor credited with the invention of commercial toilet paper. [1] [2] [3] It was the first and remained only one of the few commercial toilet papers from 1857 to 1890 remaining in common use until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper in 1935 by the Northern Tissue Company.