The United States had homegrown pencil-makers in John Thoreau (the father of Henry David), who developed the graphite-grading system, and Joseph Dixon, but Eberhard Faber, who opened a pencil ...

Eberhard Faber, the founder and head of the house of A.W. Faber, in this country, died at his residence, in this City, on Sunday, in the fiftyseventh year of his age. View Full Article in ...

Did you know Staten Island once was home to "The Pencil King" and his family? It's true. There once were quite a few mansions built here for the family of Eberhard Faber, who is credited with ...

The old Eberhard Faber pencil factory is getting a $1. 5 million makeover and by March will be home to several light manufacturing companies. The Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center ...

Local businessman Eberhard “Eb” Faber IV of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company passed away on Friday, Sept. 2, at 85 years of age, according to Times Leader newsgathering partners WBRE/WYOU.

all these things play a role as status symbols in our adult lives, but cast yourself back to your early school days when nothing said cool as much as a crackingly good pencil case. What I would ...