1808 1824 1833 1851 1865 1876 1892 1907 1914 1926 1932 1938 1945 1954 1960 1970 1974 1979 1993 2002 2007 Gurdon Caswell builds his first George W. Knowlton, a young The name Knowlton & Rice Singer patents Robert E. Lee surrenders at George Armstrong The corporation known as The company’s first duplex Knowlton Brothers, Inc., is Knowlton Brothers, Inc. introduces Theodore Knowlton, Seymour’s Theodore, a graduate of Rensselaer Atomic bomb ends Under the management of A new research program is The merger of Knowlton Brothers Knowlton Brothers announces Iranian Revolution Internet expands Disaster strikes Knowlton when Frank Cean paper mill on the south bank of the bookkeeper, and Clarke Rice, a becomes synonymous with printing. the sewing machine. Appomattox and President Lincoln Custer defeated at Knowlton Brothers, Inc. is formed machine is installed for the making awarded a contract to furnish the group health insurance to its younger brother, joins the company Polytechnic Institute, becomes the World War II. President David C. Knowlton, underway to find uses for a new Inc. of Watertown and Eaton- the opening of its new plant in and hostage- with the World a fire at its Watertown mill kills celebrates 20 Black River opposite Beebee’s young printer, form a partnership Webster’s spelling books, Cobb’s is assassinated. Little Big Horn. and the partnership sold to the of a red and black duplex paper government with several grades employees, becoming one of and seeks new areas where the company’s third a new pilot-size paper machine stretchable paper in the specialty Dikeman Company, Mount Holly Madisonville, KY. This new mill taking at the U.S. Wide Web. one worker and injures several years as owner of Island, above Cowan’s Grist Mill. to purchase the Pioneer Mill for Series of Spellers and Readers, corporation for $100,000. George used to protect film rolls produced of cover paper. the first paper companies in the existing machinery and equipment president. is designed for research and paper field. The new extensible Springs, PA is announced. David includes a 130 inch Fourdrinier, Embassy in Tehran. more. The mechanical failure Knowlton. John The Pioneer Mill, as it was called, $7,000. The business becomes Pierce’s Grammar, Ruger’s Alexander Graham Bell W. Knowlton Jr. becomes the first by the young Eastman Kodak country to offer this benefit. could operate profitably. This development. The machine is paper is used mainly for paper C. Knowlton remains as President the largest paper machine in the disrupts operations at the saturator McMahon is hired probably employed four or five known as Knowlton & Rice, a Arithmetic and the Knowlton and 1867 patents the telephone. corporation president, a position Company. Over the next two World War I begins initiative launches a significant Theodore Ely 1947 a Fourdrinier type 42 that can bags to hold heavy powders such and Eaton-Dikeman becomes a world devoted exclusively to the plant for five months. The manage- as VP of Sales & Marketing. men and as many women, and was book printer and bindery. The Rice Common Almanac are all Elizabeth Alfred Nobel he holds for 39 years. decades, Knowlton will branch with Germany’s shift into industrial technical Knowlton, Marshall Plan quashes Communist produce explorative paper from as lime, cement and fertilizers, and subsidiary of Knowlton Brothers. production of impregnated 1994 ment team begins repairs to bring A new marketing identity is capable of turn- owners collect rags for paper and published here. and George patents dynamite. out into different lines of colored invasion of Belgium. 1927 products such as latex saturated President expansion. 12” – 18” wide. Considerable stretches rather than breaks when The newly acquired firm filter paper. 1980 A new boiler is installed, fueled by operations back on line. Hoewever, launched, along with a new web ing out 150 deliver the finished books to area Knowlton Sr., 1879 Four generations papers, including the first mimeo- Lindbergh crosses low density products. 1938 experimental work is directed dropped. When most paper mills concentrates on the manufacture CD’s, VCR vapors from the resins used at the insurers dispute the approximately, site and brochure. pounds of paper schools by horse and wagon as far 1852 Thomas Edison of “Knowltons” graph paper, laminated bakelite the Atlantic. The toward the use of unusual natural are closing in northern New York, of filter papers for the food, Richard Nixon and cable TV Knowlton mill. The boiler replaces $7.5 million dollar claim. a day. north as Potsdam, NY. 1837 1869 registers patent products, dental x-ray films, and 1917 Babe hits 60 1948 fibers as well as synthetic fibers. Knowlton Brothers is concentrating chemical, beverage and resigns amid become an incinerator that was burning an Charles Dickens authors The Watertown flood destroys for the light other photographic packaging U.S. declares war on Germany. homeruns. 1933 Theodore Knowlton turns over the Papers are made on the machine on specialty papers that are too pharmaceutical industries. Watergate scandal. common place. off-gassed air steam from the The company doesn’t lose a 2008 Deed of purchase “Oliver Twist.” 1854 much of the mill’s equipment and bulb. paper. Russian Revolution begins. FDR’s New 1939 reins of the presidency to his son, using glass, nylon, rayon, Dynel complicated for big machines to saturator division. It also replaces single customer during this time: For the first time in American Lewis and Clarke for the Pioneer Charles Brown and Edward leads to a plant modernization, Deal. Adolph Germany’s David C. Knowlton; the family’s and ceramic fibers in order to manufacture. The machine’s Aerial photo a boiler that was fired by natural A testimony to their relationships history, a woman and an African Expedition of the Mill by George Chamberlain purchase the Mill including the installation of a Theodore Hitler becomes invasion of Poland fourth generation to head the evaluate their potential for flexibility allows Knowlton to of the mill. 1975 gas and oil, which generated about and Knowlton’s workers. American vie for their party’s Louisiana Purchase W. Knowlton and 1839 for $9,000. They also assume a Fourdrinier (60” trim) paper 1881 1895 Knowlton 1918 German Chancellor. starts World War II. company. production. The company invests change products and markets as Severe economic conditions affect 1983 half as much steam as the new nomination to run for president Clark Rice Daguerre invents first form of $13,000 10-year mortgage at 7%, machine with 6 dryers. Knowlton begins advertising its H.G. Wells writes & mother, Knowlton Brothers purchases the extensively in control equipment technology evolves. the paper industry. Local 1450 of Three entities are merged into boiler. Knowlton applies to of the United States. photography. payable annually. The mill changes cover papers as Kamargo Mills “The Time Machine”. Gertrude, Harmon Machine Company from 1929 A Credit Union is established David C. Knowlton, to produce products within the the United Papers International Knowlton Brothers which are later economic development agencies 2003 Beethoven its name to Brown & Chamberlain. Union Pacific Products. Kamargo is an Oneida 1905 A.H. LaFebvre. Mr. LaFebvre Theodore E. Knowlton receives at Knowlton Brothers, Inc. 1940 President 1948 very close tolerances necessary Union’s contract expires and a renamed Filtration Sciences. for $3.825 million in financing The company hires a turnaround As we go to press, a Knowlton composes his Railroad links with Indian name for Black River. reserves the right to use the plant his first patent, #1731467 for With the onset of World War II, to meet customer requirements. 1963 1972 strike at the Watertown plant to add a second paper machine, firm to help stabilize the core management group led by Frederick Fifth Symphony. Clark 1842 Central Pacific 1900 for two years to enable him to get “Methods and Apparatus for Knowlton’s expertise in low- Civil Rights After a thorough survey of brings peaceful demonstrators and allowing the company to expand business. Unpaid contractors reject “Rick” Rudmann, James “Jamie” Rice 10-hour work Republican Party Railroad. George W. a new building for the business. Preventing Offset in Printing.” 1934 density papers makes possible the movement grows.. potential and existing markets a federal mediator to settle the 1987 its manufacturing capability from Knowlton’s proposed solutions Ganter and James “Jamie” Lee After a year of experimentation, days for children is formed for the 1885 Knowlton Jr. is Over the next decade he’ll receive production of filters for gas masks. Fayetta Smith 1955 Knowlton Brothers purchases 18-day walkout. The agreement Franklin D. Cean purchases the single-layered to multi-layered and try to force the company into are negotiating a management becomes law in abolition of slavery. An automatic sprinkler system is named the first 1908 four more: #1873207 and Knowlton Brothers introduces a An auto in land in Madisonville, KY. includes an eight percent wage former Knowlton Brothers, Inc. composite materials. involuntary Chapter 7. Knowlton buyout of Knowlton Specialty Massachusetts. 1873 installed and New England Mutual president of St. Some of the first Kraft paper #1922372 for “Methods and new absorbent paper that removes every driveway, Construction begins on a new mill adjustment, job adjustments and Watertown, NY mill from Specialty Papers successfully Papers, Inc. 1809 A new waterwheel and grinders insures the company against fire, Regis Paper manufactured in the U.S. is made 1919 Apparatus for Preventing Offset in excess kitchen grease from foods 1941 America tunes President at the site. clarification of seniority issues. Filtration Sciences Corporation. converts this filing to a voluntary Thomas Jefferson 1857 are installed to produce wood pulp. the first such company to be Company. by Knowlton Brothers’ Fourdrinier. John C. Knowlton Printing;” #2030304 for “Printing;” to make them crisp and digestible. Japanese attack Ben Hall into TV and John F. Kennedy The company’s name is changed 1997 Chapter 11 Reorganization. This Knowlton celebrates its 200-year completes his 1848 Dred Scott decision returns Paper is now being made with underwritten for this type of Previously it was manufactured dies. and #2139164 for “Methods and It’s made available to households Pearl Harbor and radio goes assassinated in J. Reid Campbell, to Knowlton Specialty Papers, Inc. NASA lands the allows management to take the anniversary as the longest continu- second term as 1829 Fire destroys the Knowlton & Rice fugitive slave to his “owners”. equal portions of rags and wood fire insurance. from Kraft pulp imported from Apparatus for Preventing Slipping in the Watertown area and sold at U.S. declares war. hip-hop. Dallas, TX. President Rise of feminism and the Watertown mill is operated Pathfinder space- steps necessary to file an accept- ously-operated paper mill in the President of the “Old Hickory” mill, a year before the great fire of pulp. The mill begins producing a 1901 Sweden by Charles F. Hubbs & in Printing.” W. Conde 1972 and ecology. as a completely independent entity. craft on Mars. able recovery plan. The plan as United States. Frank Cean and the United States. Andrew Jackson is Watertown. Losses are extensive, cover for photographic tintypes. Louis Pasteur William McKinley assassinated Co. New York City. 1920 Hardware adopted provides for 100% payout 100 dedicated employees of the elected president. $16,000 for the Knowlton Mill. 1859 administers first by anarchist at World’s Fair in The Great War is over, but The Stock Market Company. 1952 1957 1965 to all creditors. “Pioneer” mill pay tribute to the The Great Fire of Watertown on rabies vaccination. Buffalo, NY. Knowlton Brothers stands firm crashes, launching 1943 Knowlton Brothers begins routine Sputnik launches Franklin D. Cean joins Knowlton. 1998 determined spirit of those who 1812 May 13th. 1874 Dam at Lower with other U.S. paper makers in the Great Mill Equipment, Knowlton Brothers enters its first monitoring of process water for the space age. Civilians try to Franklin D. Cean, Jefferson County Industrial persevered and prospered through A defeated Napoleon retreats from 1832 Gold is discovered Knowlton begins making “standard Pond, 1908 continuing its boycott of cheaper Depression. 1934 agreement with the Circle K Union atomic radiation – pioneering climb the wall of President Development Agency approves a China emerges the first 200 years. Russia. Knowlton and Rice purchase in California. cover” colored papers, because the 1888 1903 German dyes, thus enabling the (now known as the International this aspect of quality control, 1967 1973 the U.S. embassy 1987 $300,000 loan for a water-based as an economic machinery for making a 1862 Black River water had become too George W. Knowlton Jr. becomes Wright Brothers infant dye business in the U.S. Brotherhood of Papermakers). particularly as applied to Knowlton Brothers purchases The company installs a new closed when South saturator, allowing Knowlton to giant. continuous sheet of paper, known Brown & Chamberlain default dirty and dark for making fine president of the new Ontario Paper fly for the first to grow. photographic papers. 1959 Southern Specialty Paper Co. system waste treatment plant. The Vietnam surrenders use an environmentally friendly 1818 then as the Fourdrinier machine on the mortgage, and the mill is white papers. These colored papers Co., at Glen Park, N.Y. time. 1931 1936 Knowlton installs a flocculating located in Chattanooga, TN. closed system uses wastewater to the North. process to expand into new The Pioneer Mill and a second (36” cylinder). It was the first of John C. returned to the Knowlton family. come in 20 colors and several 1913 Knowlton purchases adjoining George W. Knowlton Jr. Low-density papers are adapted 1944 tank outside its Black River This company had previously which is clarified and reused in the markets. The mill also replaces for use as oil filter media for 1953 mill built by Caswell are sold to its kind in Jefferson County. The Knowlton, George Brothers George W., Jr. and John weights and at least two sizes, George Eastman’s first property from New York Airbrake. dies shortly after turning over internal combustion engines. Knowlton Brothers is cited by factory to eliminate radioactive entered the field of filter paper papermaking process. Water from 1977 1988 its single-walled chemical storage 2006 Seth Otis of Watertown and John paper capacity grows to 700 Jr., 1848 C. Knowlton, sons of the original 20” x 25” and 22” x 28”. camera for consumers A storehouse for rags, sulphite and management of the company to the War Department as “one of Knowlton Brothers becomes the particles from its water supply. manufacturing and was an ideal the Black River is added to Knowlton Brothers purchases Soviets lose in Afghanistan and the tanks with new double-walled To better serve current and future Among many technological first plant to make a commercial C. Holbrook, presumably to settle pounds per day. owner, take over the business and is developed. 1905 other raw materials is built on the his eldest son, G. Seymour innovations, Knowlton develops the outstanding organizations This tank is used for the photo- complement to the Watertown compensate for evaporation and Southern Cellulose Products, Inc. Red Bloc unravels. tanks with spill prevention customer needs, a debt. rename it “Knowlton Brothers”. Albert Einstein site and new boilers are installed. Knowlton. supplying the Chemical Warfare run of all-bagasse bleached paper. graphic backing paper made for facility. spillage. The new system enables located in Chattanooga, TN, next monitoring equipment. Knowlton Knowlton receives a carbon-filled sheet which con- The pulp is from the sugar bagasse proposes his Special A new finishing room also is ducts electricity and can be coated Service” in World War II. Polaroid, Ansco and Kodak. An air the plant to use 500,000 gallons of to its Southern Specialty Division. achieves registration to registration to Theory of Relativity. added to the mill, so paper does George Seymour pulp mill of Valentine Pulp and filtering system also is installed, water a day in production of special The new division is a leading 1991 QS-9000:1998 quality standard. ISO:9001:2000 We are proud of our upstate New for automatic reproduction of Paper Co., Lockport, L.A. 1820 1849 1863 1889 not have to be carted Knowlton, telegraph messages. enabling rapid changeover from 1968 industrial papers and function for manufacturer of cotton linter pulp Japan becomes and ISO/TS York heritage. We dedicate our- Missouri Compromise partitions The mill is rebuilt and the At the height Knowlton is the first manufacturing across the street. President Normandy one to another color or type of Vietnam War an entire week on the recycled for the paper world’s largest 16949:2002 selves to the next 200 years as the “free” and “slave” states. company is renamed Knowlton, of the Civil War, plant in the city to produce its own First Annual Employee Dinner 1931 invasion opens the paper without contamination, or protests amid race water. The dewatered sludge is industry. automaker. 2001 Quality “Pioneer” technology manufacturer Samuel F.B. Morse Rice & Company when another Abraham Lincoln electricity. Up to that time, light Knowlton is celebrated right at the paper Women’s Right 1937 “Great Crusade.” Korean waste, caused by mixing different riots in many collected and removed daily for 9/11 terror attacks Standards. in emerging markets and products. invents the telegraph. partner is added – Clarke’s son, issues was provided by kerosene. One of Brothers machine. Hotels provide more to Vote passes. Polystyrene school kinds of pulp. American cities. deposit at the city landfill. The movie “Star alert Americans as 1823 John H. Rice, who pays $8,333.33 “Emancipation the mill jobs was to make sure the Office, comfortable environment today resins introduced supplies Wars” becomes a U.S. invades President James Monroe issues his to become a one-third partner. Proclamation”. Late 1800’s newspaper article lamps were properly cleaned, 1905 by Dow Chemical. box office smash. Afghanistan. famous “Monroe Doctrine.” on Knowlton Brothers trimmed and made ready for night.