| Charles Scribner I | |
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| Born | February 21, 1821 New York City |
| Died | August 26, 1871 (aged 50) Lucerne, Switzerland |
| Cause of death | Typhoid |
| Education | Princeton University (1840) |
| Employer | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Spouse(s) | Emma Elizabeth Blair (1827-1869) m. 1846 |
| Children | John Blair Scribner (1879-1850) Charles Scribner II (1854-1930) Arthur Hawley Scribner (1859-1932) |
| Parents | Uriah Rogers Scribner Betsey Hawley |
| Relatives | Charles Scribner III, grandson Charles Scribner IV, greatgrandson |
Charles Scribner I (February 21, 1821 - August 26, 1871) was a New Yorker who, with Isaac D. Baker (1819-1850), founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons.
Biography
Scribner was born in New York City to Uriah Rogers Scribner and Betsey Hawley. He graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1840.[1] He married Emma Elizabeth Blair (1827-1869) in 1846.[2]
After graduation, Scribner was the younger partner of Baker in forming a new kind of publishing house. Unlike traditional houses, which were generally outgrowths of printing companies or book sellers, theirs would exist purely as a publisher. With the death of Baker in 1850, Scribner gained control of the company, renaming it Charles Scribner and Company. This publishing firm was to be used to publish Presbyterian philosophy books, among other things. In 1865 the company made its first venture into magazine publishing with Hours at Home.
He died of typhoid on August 26, 1871 while traveling in Lucerne, Switzerland.[3]
References
- ^ "Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons". Princeton University. http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/scribner/. Retrieved 2008-07-25. "Charles Scribner, 1821-1871 (Princeton Class of 1840), Charles Scribner, 1854-1930 (Princeton Class of 1875), Arthur Hawley Scribner, 1859-1932 (Princeton Class of 1881), Charles Scribner, 1890-1952 (Princeton Class of 1913), Charles Scribner, 1921-1995 (Princeton Class of 1943), Charles Scribner, 1951- (Princeton Class of 1973)"
- ^ Fiske, John (1888). Charles Scribner. Appleton's Cyclopedia. http://books.google.com/books?id=lPPcZiJcLuUC&pg=PA443&lpg=PA443&dq=charles+Scribner+appletons&source=web&ots=gdP9vINRoU&sig=ij44HRfvZ_826_x_AqO4WWlrLV4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result.
- ^ "Charles Scribner". New York Times. August 28, 1871. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A06E7D7153CE63ABC4051DFBE66838A669FDE. Retrieved 2008-07-24. "The sad news was received on Saturday evening of the death from fever on that day at Lucerne, Switzerland, of Mr. Charles Scribner, head of the eminent publishing house Charles Scribner & Company..."
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