Background
Updike, Daniel Berkeley was born in 1860 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Honorary C. A. and Elisabeth Bigelow (Adams) Updike.
Updike, Daniel Berkeley was born in 1860 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Honorary C. A. and Elisabeth Bigelow (Adams) Updike.
Educated private schools, Providence. Honorary Master of Arts, Brown University, 1910. Honorary Master of Arts from Harvard, 1929.
Unmarried. Work done under name of D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston, founded in 1893. Has been one of chief factors in the improvement of typography in America.
Lecturer on printing, Post-Graduate Business School, Harvard, 1910-1917. Visiting lecturer, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1940, California Institute of Technology and Huntington Library, Pasadena, 1940.
Member of board of managers John Carter Brown Library, Providence. Member Antiquarian Society (Worcester), Massachusetts History Society, American library association. Member and gold medalist American Institute of Graphic Arts.
Clubs: Somerset.