Midwest Ink

Kerley Ink is one of the oldest remaining privately-owned ink manufacturing companies in the United States. It was officially founded in 1947 by Raymond Ambrose Kerley, but the company's roots in the graphic arts go back considerablyfarther than that. As a matter of fact, they go all the way back to 1909, the year that the famous Indian Chief Geronimo died.In that same year, the then 16 year-old founder of Kerley Ink took the New York Central railroad from Schenectady, New York to Chicago to seek his fortune. There he found work as a "printer's devil" near downtown Chicago in a shop named The Regensteiner Press. The rest, as they say, is history.The Kerley Ink Story 1909-1982. A reprint of a feature story from the October 1982 issue of The American Inkmaker Magazine.