7-862: The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company was started by John Eberhard Faber in 1861 in Midtown Manhattan , New York City , by the East River at the foot of 42nd Street , on the present site of the United Nations Headquarters . After an 1872 fire, operations moved to the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn , across the East River, which was acquired by Staedtler , a stationery company with global presence, in 1978. This factory
14-803: A fire destroyed the factory in Manhattan, and the new Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory was built on a site on Kent and West streets in Greenpoint, Brooklyn . The new factory was designed for expansion and by the time Faber died his factory was the largest of its kind in United States and the Faber name was known all over the world. Faber died on March 2, 1879, in New York City. Faber is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn , New York . On July 1, 1854, Eberhard Faber married Jenny Haag, who
21-568: The original Blackwing 602 pencil, an instrument that has achieved legendary status among writers and animators. John Eberhard Faber John Eberhard Faber (sometimes Johann Eberhard Faber; December 6, 1822 – March 2, 1879) was a German-born American manufacturer of pencils in New York. Johann Eberhard Faber was born on December 6, 1822, in the village of Stein , near the city of Nuremberg , in Bavaria. His father, George Leonard Faber,
28-514: The store to 718-720 Broadway in 1877. In 1852, he started to export red cedar logs to the Faber pencil factories in Stein, having realized that the red cedar available in America was ideal for lead pencils. In 1861, he opened the first lead pencil factory along the East River, between 41st and 43rd streets, Midtown Manhattan . The factory was established under the name of Eberhard Faber . In 1872,
35-507: Was a descendant of the famous Faber family, one of ancient lineage in Bavaria engaged in the profession of manufacturing lead pencils. He did his primary schooling at a Volksschule and then enrolled to study law at the University of Heidelberg . But he left his studies mid-way to pursue a career in commerce in America. He moved to the United States in 1848 and opened a stationery store at 133 William Street in New York in 1849. He moved
42-542: Was acquired by Faber-Castell USA in 1994 before being bought by Newell ( Sanford ) and eventually rolled into the Paper Mate brand. Eberhard Faber had a lumber mill on Atsena Otie Key , near Cedar Key , Florida until it was destroyed following the 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane . A German subsidiary was founded in 1922 in Neumarkt , near Nuremberg , Germany , by sons Eberhard and Lothar. The company manufactured
49-594: Was born on November 23, 1836, in Munich . She was the daughter of Ludwig and Johanna (Mangstel) Haag, members of old Bavarian families. They had six children: The Faber family maintained a large home in Port Richmond, Staten Island in the 1870s. In 1879, after his father's death, John Eberhard Jr. took charge of the Eberhard Faber company. This article about an American businessperson born in
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