Walter Scott & Company.

Walter Scott & Company was organized in Plainfield, N.J., in 1884. The firm was a major manufacturer of printing presses, particulaly the large high-speed presses and folding machines used by newspapers.

Walter Scott was born in Ayr, Scotland on May 22, 1844, and was educated at Ayr Academy. He came to America in 1869 and settled in Chicago, where he began developing printing and paper-folding machinery. He received his first patent in 1874, and in the same year he built the first folding machine to be combined with a rotary printing press for the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

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