Francis Wolle

Francis Wolle (December 17, 1817 in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania – 1893 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was an American priest of the Moravian Church, inventor and phycologist.[1]

Francis Wolle invented and patented the first bag-making machine in 1851 forming the basis for the Union Bag and Paper Company. In 1892 the company relocated from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Hudson Falls, New York where it had a paper mill. Union Camp Corporation,was formed by the 1956 merger of Union Bag and Paper Company and Camp Manufacturing. [2]

Currently his company is under the ownership of International Paper.[3]


Works
  • Desmids of the United States and list of American Pediastrums, 1884
  • Fresh-Water Algae of the United States (exclusive of the Diaomaceae) : complemental to Desmids of the United States, 1887
  • Diatomacea of North America, 1890

References
  1. V.B. Wittrock, "Catalogus illustratus Iconothecae botanicae Horti Bergiani Stockholmiensis", Pars II, Acta Horti Bergiana Bd. 3, No. 3, 1905, p. 202.
  2. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/union-camp
  3. "Francis Wolle". Retrieved December 16, 2012.


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