 However, no nationwide standard was created until the American Point System was decided in 1886.The American Point System was proposed by Nelson C. Hawks of Marder Luse & Company in Chicago in the 1870s, and his point system used the same method of size division as Fournier's; viz.dividing 1 inch by 6 to get 1 pica, and dividing it again by 12 to get 1 point.