William D. Ticknor
active Boston, 1885 - 1889
LC Heading: William D. Ticknor (Firm : Boston, Mass.)
LC name authority rec. nn 85316843
LC Heading: William D. Ticknor & Co.
Ticknor, firm, publishers, Boston. The cost books of Ticknor and Fields, 1949: ::b p. xv, etc. (in 1832 William D. Ticknor and John Allen formed a partnership for selling books under the name Allen and Ticknor; in 1834 the partners separated, Allen continuing in Boston until 1837 as John Allen and Co. [no publications in LC database], William D. Ticknor conducting his business without partners until 1843; in 1843 James T. Fields was admitted as a junior active partner, along with John Reed, Jr., as a silent partner, causing the adoption of the new name William D. Ticknor and Company; in 1849 the name was altered to Ticknor, Reed and Fields; in 1854 Reed withdrew and the name was changed to the classic Ticknor and Fields, lasting until the death of Ticknor in 1864)
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Last Updated8/7/24
active Boston, 1845 - 1854
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1817 - 1881, Boston
American, 1870 - 1885
American, active 1828 - 1903
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836 - 1907, Boston
Boston, 1834 - 1926, Mount Desert, Maine
active Boston and Cambridge, about 1853 - 1879
active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1879 - 1894