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Merrill and Baker Publishers
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Merrill and Baker Publishers

American, 1803 - 1906
BiographyMerrill & Baker, New York, 1893-1906

ABOUT: Daniel David Merrill (born St. Paul October 8, 1863) with his father D. D. Merrill published textbooks for the state of Minnesota under a 17 year contract. Father entered general publishing, and in 1890 Daniel went to New York City to represent father’s firm, which failed. In 1893 he founded Merrill & Baker with brother (L. K. Merrill) and Francis E. Baker, later a U.S. Circuit Court Judge in Chicago. One of the largest subscription publishers, the firm published Ridpath's History of the United States from New York even after bankruptcy in December 1904 when the remainder of the house moved to Chicago – where Merrill died in 1906. (Tebel II, 382-3).

http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/publishers/merrillbaker/merrillbaker.htm EM 8/26/2019

Person TypeInstitution
Last Updated8/7/24