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Henry Wilson (1812–1875)[1]

Career

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Wilson Henry, compiler

1877
11 University Place
Private office 697 Broadway, room 26
Connecticut

Affiliations

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History

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The New York Directory

  • 1842–1849: John Doggett, Jr. (1807–1852)
  • 1845: Doggett also issued a supplement, needed because of the Great Fire of July 19, updating address changes
  • 1850–1851: Charles Rudolph Rode (1825–1865), of Doggett & Rode
  • 1852–1870: John F. Trow (1810–1886)
  • 1871–1886: The Trow City Directory Company, John R. Trow, Vice President
  • Wilson's addresses

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    • 1860: Hutchinson's home
    • 697 Broadway (1865)


    • 1864: 237 Monroe (home)
    • 1870: 258 Delancey (home)
    • 1875: Henry Wilson (compiler)
    11 University Place
    Private office: 697 B'Way room 26
    Home: Ct.

    Directories

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    The Trow City Directory company facility at 49 Ann Street on May 31, 1855, was partially destroyed by fire, reportedly about $50,000 in damaged. The 1855 Trow City Directory had been nearly ready for publication.[2]

    Wilson's direcories

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    • Wilson's Newburgh Directory, 1856
    • Wilson's Binghamton Directory, 1857
    • Wilson's Elmira Directory for 1857
    • Wilson's Hudson City Directory for 1856–57
    • Wilson's Illustrated Guide to the Hudson River, 1850

    Selected published works

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    1. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America (3 Vols.) by Henry Wilson (1812–1875), J.R. Osgood and Company (1873–1877); OCLC 238660840
      Vol. 3 edited, after the death of the author, by Samuel Hunt
    2. The Great Metropolis
      1850
      1851
      1852
      1853
      Six publications by Henry Wilson, then John Doggett, Jr. (died March 21, 1952, New York City)

    Trow

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    John F. Trow, receivership

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    On October 23, 1877, Judge David McAdam (1839–1901), in the New York City Marine Court on Chambers Street, appointed Zenas Edgar Newell (1841–1912) as receiver of the property of John F. Trow.[3]


    1877 executives

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    • John F. Trow, Vice President
    • James Collis, Jr. (1828–1898), Vice President
    • G. Washington Coutant, Cashier
    • Robert B. Hallock, Editor
    • Henry M. Baird, Proofreader
    • Henry Wilson, Compiler, private office at 697 Broadway, room 26 (home was in Connecticut)


    The Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co., in June 1891, under the laws of New Jersey, with capital stock of $1,500,000, in shares of $100 each, consisting of $750,000 of 8 percent cumulative stock and $750,000 common stock, to take over and carry on the business of Trow City Directory Company, established in 1836 (18X6?), of Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, heretofore two separate companies.

    Directors

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    • Robert W. Smith, President, New York[4]
    • Edward Lange, Vice-President and Treasurer, New York
    • Francis B. Thurber, President Thurber Whyland Co., New York
    • Alfred C. Cheney, President Garfield National Bank, New York
    • Robert J. Dean, of R. J. Dean A Co., Bankers, New-York
    • Franklin W. Hopkins, of S.V. White & Co. Bankers, New York
    • William H. Bates, Superintendent, Trow City Directory, New York

    Notes

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    References

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    1. ^ Publishers' Sample and Canvassing Books issued prior to the Year 1877 in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society, compiled by Marcus Allen McCorison (1926–2013) (1997)
      Compiled from cataloguing records of the American Antiquarian Society and from Canvassing books, sample books, and subscription publishers' ephemera 1833–1951 in the collection of Michael Zinman (né Michael I. Zinman; born 1937).
      OCLC 78103466
    2. ^ "Latest by Telegraph – Telegraphed for the Richmond Enquirer," Richmond Enquirer (founded in 1804 by Thomas Ritchie), June 1, 1855, p. 2, col. 7 (top) (accessible via' Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/339046686)
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    4. ^ "Trow Directory Officers Elected," New York Times, July 18 1894

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    Directories

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