. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . th in 1S8S. He was a thorough man of business, fully conversant with all the details ofpaper manufacturing, quick to adopt new methods and improve-ments, and it is largely owing to his foresight and energy that thepresent company has arrived at such prominence and achieved suchmarked success. The firm of Martin & W. H. Xixou was established in 1S79,and incorporated in 188S. Previous to that, however, in 1844, thelittle business started by the worthy Meunonite Bishop had grownto such proportions that a new and larger site was necessary. Atract of laud
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . th in 1S8S. He was a thorough man of business, fully conversant with all the details ofpaper manufacturing, quick to adopt new methods and improve-ments, and it is largely owing to his foresight and energy that thepresent company has arrived at such prominence and achieved suchmarked success. The firm of Martin & W. H. Xixou was established in 1S79,and incorporated in 188S. Previous to that, however, in 1844, thelittle business started by the worthy Meunonite Bishop had grownto such proportions that a new and larger site was necessary. Atract of laud was taken between the canal and the Schuylkill riverat Manayunk, in the Twenty-first Ward, and the first building waserected which now forms the great Flat Rock works, covering anarea of nearh three acres, and comprising fifteen distinct buildings,with marvellous machinery and appliances. The little businessestablished by the Rittenhouses in 1691 has thus blossomed forthinto a great and important industry, and it has for two centuries. been conducted and developed by the old Bishops family anddescendants. These mills were the first to manufacture paper fromstraw, and the Nixons have always been the pioneers in any im-provement in the manufacture of paper, both in the machinery in-vented to save labor and the material used to manufacture the pro-duct. At one time the firm supplied a majority of the newspapersin Philadelphia, but of late years the manufacture of news papershas been abandoned, and book paper alone is the output of themills. The personnel of the Martin & W. H. Nixon Paper Company-is as follows: President, William H. Nixon; Secretary and Treasurer,Samuel Bayle ; Directors, William H. Nixon, George F. Nixon andEdward P. Nixon. The industry gives employment and sustenanceto one hundred and sixty-five men and eight\*-six women, and inthe many buildings whichcover the great area there arefive large paper machines,twenty-two pulp engines,twelve steam boilers and sixstea
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