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Henry Wilson (1812–1875)^[1]

Career

Wilson Henry, compiler

1877

11 University Place

Private office 697 Broadway, room 26

Connecticut

Affiliations

1874: Elected Fellow of the American Geographical Society

History

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

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

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

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

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
The Great Metropolis
1850
1851
1852
1853
Six publications by Henry Wilson, then John Doggett, Jr. (died March 21, 1952, New York City)

Trow

John F. Trow, receivership

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

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

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

References

^ 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
^ "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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^ "Trow Directory Officers Elected," New York Times, July 18 1894

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Directories

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