Ticknor and Company

Ticknor and Company's roots go back to 1832 when William Davis Ticknor and partner John Allen started a publishing business out of the Old Corner Bookstore in Boston. Through a series of partnerships and buyouts and new start-ups over the next fifty years, descendant Benjamin Holt Ticknor took over J.R. Osgood and Co. in 1885 under the name Ticknor and Company. Ticknor and Company operated for only four years as a separate entity. They became part of Houghton Mifflin, and Co. in 1889, but continued under the Ticknor name until 1908.