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Strange to say, pen collectors seem entirely unaware of where the
Waterman gravesite lies . . . Though one might expect a site in New York for a man who had lived the last 20-odd years of his life in Brooklyn, Waterman was in fact laid to rest just outside Boston, in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica
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His entry into fountain pen manufacturing has only recently been properly researched. Waterman was working as a pen salesman in New York for a new company founded in the spring of 1883 by a volatile inventor named Frank
Holland. Holland abandoned his company after only six weeks; Waterman stepped in
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Waterman began selling insurance in 1862, starting in
Michigan but relocating to Boston in 1864. In the late 1860s Waterman and his wife Sara Ann Roberts were converted to Spiritualism; his wife gained some fame (and income) as a medium, only to be unmasked and publicly pilloried as a charlatan. In
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There has been a great deal of mythologizing of
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