And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: November 1st, 1863, 152 years ago today ... a day to write home about. For that was the day the future fountain pen magnate George S. Parker was ...

Along with the Coca-Cola bottle, the Singer sewing machine and the Willys Jeep, the Parker pen ranks as one of the best-known symbols of the U.S. around the world. Parker’s shapely”51″ pens ...

University of Wisconsin Digital Collection The Parker Pen Company in the 1920s ... In 2009, Rubbermaid shut the Janesville plant down and laid off 153 employees. Manufacturing of the Parker ...

General Motors’ assembly plant in Janesville, Wis ... Many townspeople became GM refugees, Lear refugees, Parker Pen refugees. One out of three Janesville residents lost a job or had someone ...

it was the largest pen-manufacturing plant in the world. Parker Pens were such a big deal that Janesville named a senior high school after Parker. They were such a big deal that George S.

The move, now official, will bring an end to the link to Parker Pen that ... needs. Janesville and Rock County have had significant job losses over the past year. The GM assembly plant ended ...

The Parker Pen factory in Newhaven has been bought by production giant Newell Rubbermaid from Gillette, ending months of speculation that the site was to close. About 650 staff at the plant were ...

It’s the home of the Parker Pen Company. A man named George Parker ... in Janesville just after World War I. And the Janesville assembly plant, as it was called, made Chevrolets decade after ...