Font Designer – Frank Hinman Pierpont

Born 1860 in New Haven, CT; died 1937 in London. Trained as a mechanic. By 1894, he was working for Loewe AG in Berlin, where the Typograph typesetting machine was designed. He was director of the Typograph typesetting machine factory from 1896. He moved to England in 1899 and became foundry manager at Monotype.
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