Note 8 — RISE AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING.

After the retirement of Binny & Ronaldson, Richard Ronaldson carried on the business of this foundry until 1833, when he in turn was succeeded by Lawrence Johnson and George F. Smith. Mr. Johnson, a man of great energy and enterprise, had (contemporaneously with Jedediah Howe) introduced stereotyping into Philadelphia, and now both callings were incorporated. Ten years afterward, Mr. Smith retired; and in the year 1845 Mr. Johnson associated with him Thomas MacKellar, John F. Smith and Richard Smith, who had, as it were, grown up with the business. The foundry now quickly grew in importance, and won a wide reputation. Mr. Johnson died April 26, 1860, and was succeeded by his three partners, who, with Peter A. Jordan, constituted the firm known as MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, under whose management the establishment was brought to rank equal with and excel most of the type foundries in the world. Mr. Jordan died March 25, 1884. In 1885 Wm. B. MacKellar, G. Fredk Jordan and C. F. Huch were associated with the remaining partners, and a corporation was formed under the name of The MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Company. Their “Typographic Advertiser” (begun in 1855) and Specimen Books are regarded as unique mechanical and literary productions. The height and body of the Pica of this Company have been universally adopted in the United States as the standard of size for the American Point System of type.