Historical Journey: An Interactive Timeline
- Kimberly, Clark and Company is established in Neenah, Wisconsin
- Kimberly, Clark and other investors form the Atlas Paper Co.
- Scott Paper Company founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Irvin and Clarence Scott
- Four young businessmen, John A. Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles B. Clark, and Frank C. Shattuck, join forces as partners in this Wisconsin village and put together the modest sum of $30,000 to start Kimberly, Clark and Co.
- The company builds the Globe Mill, the first in Wisconsin to make newsprint entirely from linen and cotton rags. Production begins on Oct. 22.
- Scott Paper Co. Limited is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a limited partnership on June 2, 1874, although the final agreement is not signed until 1879. The partners include brothers Thomas, Irvin and Clarence Scott and their cousins Thomas Seymour and Zerah Hoyt.
- Kimberly, Clark Co. buys Neenah's only other paper mill - known variously as the Smith & Van Ostrand Mill, Red Mill and Neenah Paper Mill. (The mill was torn down and replaced by the new Neenah Mill in 1885.)
- Kimberly, Clark and other investors form the Atlas Paper Co. in Appleton, Wisconsin. When the mill goes into operation the next year, it is the first in the state to produce paper largely from ground or mechanic pulp. Its first product is wrapping paper, and its inventive papermakers gain an enviable reputation for developing new products and processes.
- Brothers Seymour and Irvin Scott ran a paper commission business for twelve years, but the poor economy in the 1870s forced them out of business. Irvin and his younger brother, Clarence, then decided to form their own company out of the remains of the first. Irvin reportedly borrowed $2,000 from his father-in-law and added it to the $300 the two brothers had to form the capital of Scott Paper Company.
