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George William Childs was born on May 12, 1829 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, the unacknowledged child of a father belonging to a prominent family of that city.
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Title: Our daily fare. Author: George William Childs Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP02508500 CollectionID: CTRG98-S7 PublicationDate: 18640101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Title from caption. Publishing committee: George W. Childs, chairman, et al. Collation: v. : ill. ; 30 cm
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Excerpt from Recollections The suggestion had been made before; it was made repeatedly, and by many whose disinterested and critical judgment had naturally so much weight with Mr. Childs that this book is the happy result. To the text of the four original papers have been added the story of the Memorial to Shake speare at stratford-upon-avon; an account of the Window in Westminster Abbey to the memory of the Christian poets Herbert and Cowper; the Window commemorative of the virtues and genius of the poet Milton, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster; and of the Reredos erected in St. Thomas's Church, Winchester, England, as a memorial to Bishop Ken of that ancient cathedral city; together with a sketch of the celebration of the birthday of Mr. Childs by the printers of Philadelphia, with an introduction by Professor Richard T. Ely, of Johns Hopkins University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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George William Childs was born on May 12, 1829 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, the unacknowledged child of a father belonging to a prominent family of that city.
George attended public school.
At the age of thirteen Childs entered the United States Navy, and passed fifteen months at Norfolk. When not quite fifteen he went to Philadelphia and worked in a stationery and book-store. In 1848 he started a confectionery business there, under the firm name of George W. Childs & Company but after a few months parted with the store and sold toilet preparations in a small shop in the Ledger Building. In July 1849 he became connected with the book-selling business of R. E. Peterson, who was a silent partner in a firm then dissolved, and who, having been accused of being an infidel, thought it policy to place the business in his clerk’s name.
In 1853 the firm became R. E. Peterson & Company and undertook Dr. Samuel Austin Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature. In November 1854, the name was changed to Childs & Peterson, whose first great success was Dr. Elisha Kent Kane’s Arctic Explorations (1856). Dr. Kane received royalties amounting to $70, 000. Childs prevailed upon the author to make his narrative popular rather than scientific, and it owed “a great part of its success to Mr. Childs’s skill in engineering and obtaining medals and resolutions complimentary to Dr. Kane from the legislatures of various states, and especially to his labor in Washington”. The death of Dr. Kane in Cuba the following year was seized upon by the enterprising publisher to keep alive the book’s interest, and the body of the explorer was brought back with ceremonies and processions in every city through which it was carried.
Upon the dissolution of the firm of Childs & Peterson, in 1860, Childs became a member of that of J. B. Lippincott & Company which took over and completed Allibone’s Dictionary. A year or so later he retired from that house and began the publication of several books connected with the war then in progress. In January 1863 he took the Philadelphia agency of tlie Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, while still continuing the publishing business, and in May of that year founded the American Publishers’ Circular and Literary Gazette, edited by R. Shelton Mackenzie. This publication he continued until 1870.
In December 1864 Childs bought Philadelphia Public Ledger, a newspaper, his partners in the enterprise being Anthony J. and Francis A. Drexel, of the banking house of Drexel & Company. When the newspaper was purchased it was losing $3, 000 a week. Within a very short time after coming under the proprietorship of Childs, its circulation increased enormously.
Childs was the author of Recollections of General Grant (1885) and Recollections by George W. Childs (1890). He gave the Shakespeare Memorial Fountain, in Stratford-upon- Avon, 1887; a memorial window to the poets Herbert and Cowper, in Westminster Abbey, 1876, and a memorial window to Milton, in St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, 1888. To the West Point Military Academy, of which he was a member of the board of visitors, he presented the portraits of Generals Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan. He gave his valuable collection of manuscripts to the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. From 1870, when his mansion was opened, until his death in 1894, he entertained many distinguished visitors to Philadelphia, including the Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil, the Duke of Veragua, and President Grant.
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Childs was married to Emma Bouvier Peterson, daughter of his former partner, Robert E. Peterson.
