George Harrison Mifflin (1845 - 1921) was an executive in the publishing business. He served as president of Houghton Mifflin.
Mifflin was born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard. He joined Hurd and Houghton in 1867 and worked for its subsidiary Riverside Press. He partnered with Henry Oscar Houghton in 1872.
Houghton died in 1895 and Mifflin took over leadership of the company. He communicated with some of its prominent authors through good times and bad.
Mifflin was at first skeptical of the company's investment in educational publishing. He was socially connected to Sarah Wyman Whitman, who designed elegant book covers for the business.
He died in Boston at aged 75.
Further reading
- The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin ’s Formative Years by Ellen B. Ballou, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1970
- "George H. Mifflin", Cambridge Tribune XLIV.6 April 9, 1921
References
- ^ "GEORGE H. MIFFLIN DEAD.; President of Houghton Mifflin Co. Publishers, Dies in Boston at 75". The New York Times. April 6, 1921.
- "Mifflin, George H. (George Harrison), 1845-1921, - Social Networks and Archival Context".
- ^ "Publisher: Houghton Mifflin". www.isfdb.org.
- Inc, Manly (June 9, 2013). Encyclopedia of American Literature. Infobase Learning. ISBN 9781438140773 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}:|last=has generic name (help) - Palmer, Stephanie C. (December 16, 2008). Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739132128 – via Google Books.
- Knee, Jonathan A. (November 29, 2016). Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231543330 – via Google Books.
- Cook, Doug. "Library Acquires Sarah Whitman Bookbindings | Bowdoin News Archive".
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