Born around this date in 1860, Thomas Holley is usually credited with inventing the legal pad. While working in a paper mill in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1888, Holley gathered up the scraps (called sortings) from other projects and bound them into a useful pad. He soon added the familiar lines, and then added the vertical scores when a judge wanted a column for notes on the main text. The origins of the familiar yellow color are unknown.
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