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Eliakim Littell was born on January 2, 1797 at Burlington, New Jersey, United States. He was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer, Eliakim Littell, for whom he was named, and son of Stephen and Susan (Gardner) Littell.
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Eliakim Littell was born on January 2, 1797 at Burlington, New Jersey, United States. He was the grandson of a Revolutionary officer, Eliakim Littell, for whom he was named, and son of Stephen and Susan (Gardner) Littell.
He attended a grammar school at Haddon-field, New Jersey, but his formal education was limited.
Littell served an apprenticeship in a bookstore and later he ventured into publishing. Soon he began editing reprint periodicals of a high literary and intellectual quality and to this work practically his whole life was given.
His first periodical was the Philadelphia Register and National Recorder, a sixteen-page weekly, of which he was editor and joint publisher, the first number appearing on January 2, 1819. In July following, it became the National Recorder. It consisted at first largely of American newspaper reprint, interspersed with a little original copy, but on July 7, 1821, it was renamed the Saturday Magazine, and consisted thereafter "principally of selections from the most celebrated British reviews, magazines, and scientific journals. " The size was increased to twenty-four pages. A year later it became a ninety-six-page monthly, as the Museum of Foreign Literature and Science and was edited for more than a year by Robert Walsh, who combined this work with his duties as editor of the Philadelphia National Gazette.
After Walsh's departure, Littell assumed editorial responsibility, except during 1835, with the occasional assistance of his brother, Dr. Squier Littell. The Museum began to experiment with illustrations in 1826 and soon made them a regular feature. In 1843 it was united with the American Eclectic as the Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, published in New York and Philadelphia, with John Holmes Agnew as editor. In 1844 Littell sold out his interest in the Eclectic Museum and went to Boston, where in April this "indefatigable caterer for the public mind" founded Littell's Living Age, consisting mainly of reprints from the British press.
His chief successes were with magazines which he himself both edited and published. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature, which he began to publish in 1824 as the continuation of an earlier journal, soon merged with the American Medical Recorder. The Religious Magazine and Spirit of the Foreign Theological Journals, founded in 1828 with the Rev. George Weller as editor, survived only four volumes before it was discontinued--"very much liked but did not pay. " In 1855 Littell founded still another periodical, the Panorama of Life and Literature, a 144-page monthly, which he announced as "not so comprehensive in its scope; so redundant in its fulness, or so complete in all its parts" as the Living Age. He continued in active direction of his business until his death, which occurred at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Littell took a lively interest in national affairs and was a stanch supporter of the Union during the Civil War, contributing particularly to the discussion of financial questions.
Littell was remarkable for his business acumen, wide reading in ancient and modern literature, a somewhat irascible temper, and a clever pen.
On February 12, 1828, Littell married Mary Frazee Smith, by whom he had six children, two of whom died in infancy. His son, Robert Smith Littell, succeeded him as editor of the Living Age.