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C. Harold Smith died in the 1930s, 1931 to be excact. He lived through 1860- 1931.
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C. Harold Smith was born in London, England in 1860 and lived for a while in New Zealand as a teenager until coming to the United States in 1878.
In 1885 C. Harold Smith founded a company with his cousin, Edwin Binney. First producing industrial pigments.
The opportunity to start up Binney & Smith originated with Edwin Binney's father, Joseph, who had founded the Peekskill Chemical company in New York during 1864. The company produced black and red pigments for industrial uses such as coloring tires and barns.
Edwin Binney and his cousin, Smith, formed a partnership and took over the company in 1885.
At the time, crayons were used primarily in industry. They were thick and hard to handle. The crayons were also toxic. Binney & Smith were working on wax crayons to be used to mark crates and barrels in their own factory. They took this crayon and began working to develop nontoxic pigments to color the wax. They produced their first eight pack of crayons in 1903.
The name Crayola was coined by Binney's wife and used a combination of the French words for stick of color, craie , and oily, ola. The crayons were a huge success.
The company stayed abreast of safety issues and in 1936 founded the Crayon, Watercolor, and Craft Institute which promoted the production of safe art materials.
Hrs the timeline of C. Harold Smith:
1860: Born.
1878: Emigrated to United States of America.
1885: Binney & Smith Company founded.
1902: Won gold medal at St. Louis World Exhibition for dustless chalk.
1903: Introduced first box of crayons.
1931: Died.
1936: Binney & Smith Company founded the Crayon, Watercolor, and Craft Institute.
1978: Binney & Smith Company introduced Crayola markers.
1996: 100 billionth crayon produced.
1998: Company opened 20,000 square foot Crayola Factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.
C. Harold Smith was 71 when he died in 1931.
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