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This is a collection of Fountain Pen Articles, Fountain Pen Histories and Fountain Pen Essays that have been published either online or in obscure books or jorunals. Things that I found while doing research on other pen topics and I thought were too good to be lost to obscurity and should be put online where a Google search could unearth them easily for the fountain pen enthusiast and fountain pen researcher.. If you know of an article that should be placed here, please let me know.
Feel free to use this information as you like, but I would appreciate a mention for the Kamakura pens site if you publish an article, or book with information gathered here. Recently, I have seen people publish pen articles exclusively from my archive with out any mention at all and that always breaks my heart.
Any Comments? Please send an e-mail to: rd@kamakurapens.com |
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Fenner
at Waupun.
There are 668 prisoners at the State
Prison now, one of whom, Mr. Fenner,
sentenced from this county for life for
the murder of Mr. Hessler, is reported
doing fairly well, as the following report
from Mr. J. W. Oliver, a member
of the State Board of Control would
indicate:
When he went to the slate prison he
had no trade, and only 25 cents in his
pocket , and now he has $1,100 in the
bank that he has earned and saved in
the ten or eleven years he has been
confined there. He is now one of the
most skillful mechanics in the prison
and is able to make any part of
machinery that is broken. He has in-
vented a species of fountain pen which
is considered superior to any other on
the market, which he sells, not only to
visitors, but through half a dozen
firms who handle them.
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After finding this article, I did some digging.
The "Fernner" inventor mentiond was Marvin M. Fernner. His fountain pen patent was awarded in 1893. He assigned the patent to James B Shea. The member of the State Board of Control, J. W. Oliver signed as a witness for Fenner's patent.
