Robert Clarke & Company
Robert Clarke & Company was a book publishing company and bookseller in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1858 to 1909. After 1894, it was known as The Robert Clarke Company. It published literary and historical works.
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Robert Clarke & Company
- Founded
- 1858
- Headquarters
- Cincinnati
- Dissolved
- 1909
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Robert Clarke & Company was a book publishing company and bookseller in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1858 to 1909. After 1894, it was known as The Robert Clarke Company. It published literary and historical works.
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Robert Clarke was born May 1, 1829, at Annan, Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and came with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840. He was educated at public schools and Woodward College. He was a bookkeeper for William Hanna, and then became a proprietor of a second-hand bookstore near the corner of 6th and Walnut St. In 1858, in partnership with John W. Dale and Roderick D. Barney, he bought out the large Cincinnati publishing and bookjobbing firm H. W. Derby & Co., renaming it Robert Clarke & Co. In 1874, Howard Barney and Alexander Hill entered the firm. In 1894, the firm was renamed The Robert Clarke Company with a board composed of the same gentlemen. Robert Clarke died at his home library in Glendale, Ohio, on August 27, 1899. The firm lost its plant in a February, 1903 fire, but rebuilt. The firm dissolved in a receiver's sale in 1909.
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1858
Robert Clarke & Company established.
1858
Robert Clarke & Company is recorded from 1858.
1858
Robert Clarke & Company was established or created in 1858.
1909
Robert Clarke & Company ceased.
1909
Robert Clarke & Company was dissolved or ceased in 1909.
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- 1."Robert Clarke", Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications, vol. 8 (1900), p. 487.
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