William+H.+Sanford+Jr.

Willard H. Sanford Jr. Co. creator of Sharpie By: Lindsay Creekmore, Tyler Dudley, Brooke Edgy

He was born on December 8, 1874. He was born in Mississippi. Sanford is the largest writing manufacturer company ever.The company is mostly known for making sharpie,paper mate, and Prismacolor.Manufactured in 1857 by Frederick W. and William H. Sanford Jr. in Massachusetts.They moved the company to Chicago 5 years before the Great Chicago Fire and had to move the company once again due to making space for a new expressway. Sanford entered the market in 1964. He was born to a merchant and grain dealer. He had 1 child and her name was Jennie. Business grew over the years owning different office product stores like Keene and Rogers office products in 1991.After that over the next few years the acquired more drawing companies.They split into different companies, one American company and an International company.In 1999 they gained more supply companies and changed the name to "Newell Rubbermaid".Then Gillette sold themselves to "Newell Rubbermaid".They had many companies around the world in Australia, Canada,Germany,Mexico,the U.S. and more.

** About the Business **
( You can get the ultra fine point sharpie in four different colors.)
 * Since the black sharpie marker there have been 49 different colors made into sharpies.
 * In 1979 the business started making the ultra fine point.

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Contributor, An EHow. "Who Invented the Sharpie Permanent Marker? | EHow.com." //EHow | How to Videos, Articles & More - Trusted Advice for the Curious Life | EHow.com//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. .The author was an ehow contributor.There was no currency available.The purpose of the website was the give info on the sharpie and it's creator.It was very easy to understand the information provided.It provided lots of information.It provided lots of other sources.it had tons of stuff on the sharpie.It told a lot about the sharpie creators life.I used this site to help me find information on my topic.
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"Sharpie® | History." //Global Landing//. Web. 12 Oct. 2011. []. The author was a person who has worked at sharpie before.The purpose of the website was to give info on sharpie.This shows date from all the way back to the 1890's.This also has dates up to 2007.This has tons of information.This website is good for the project we are doing.This website was really understandable and not hard at all to know what they are talking about.It provided a good amount of info.It had tons of stuff on the sharpie creator and the helpers.It also had info on the company it self.

//Sharpie.com//. Web. . From this website we have found information about the invention our inventor co. created.
 * __Brooke Edgy__**

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