Charles Scribner

Charles Scribner is the name of several members of a New York publishing family associated with the company bearing their name.

Charles Scribner

Charles Scribner (February 21, 1821-August 26, 1871) was a New Yorker who, with Isaac Baker, founded a publishing company that would eventually become Charles Scribner's Sons.

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New York - Publishing - Charles Scribner's Sons

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Scribner was born in New York City to Uriah Rogers and Betsey (Hawley) Scribner, graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1840, and married Emma L. Blair in 1846. He died of typhoid in 1871 while traveling in Lucerne, Switzerland.

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New York City - Princeton University - 1840 - Lucerne - Switzerland

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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.

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In 1865 the company made its first venture into magazine publishing with Hours at Home.

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