Eponym of the week: Walter Scott Lenox, who founded the china company named for him in 1889. Growing up in Trenton, N.J., Lenox was fascinated by the potter's wheel, and at age 16 offered his services for free to a local manufacturer to learn the trade. In 1917, Lenox china became the first American-made service selected for official use in the White House.

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