Pont, Charles E. (Charles Ernest), 1898-1971

Charles Ernest Pont, a painter, printmaker, magazine/book illustrator, educator, author, and clergyman, was born in France in 1898, and raised in New York City. He lived in and around New York all his life, and died in Wilton, Connecticut, in 1971.

Frederic W. Goudy, American printer, typographer, and type designer, was born in Bloomington, Illinois, in 1865. He was a partner in small presses in the 1890s and then, with his wife Bertha (1869-1935) the proprietor of the Village Press, which was located in Park Ridge, Illinois (1903-1904), Hingham, Massachusetts (1904-1906), New York City (1906-1923), and Marlboro-on-Hudson, New York (1923-1939); the press was twice destroyed by fire (1908 and 1939) as was Goudy's Village Letter Foundery (1939). Goudy designed over one hundred typefaces, taught at the Art Students' League in New York (1915-1924), and served as art director to the Lanston Monotype Machine Company (1920-1939). He died at his home, Deepdene, in Marlboro-on-Hudson, in 1947.

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