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American bookman
Charles Carroll Soule
Born June 25, 1842 Died January 7, 1913(1913-01-07) (aged 70) Burial place
Walnut Hills Cemetery Education Occupation
Bookman Known for Founder of
The Green Bag Spouse
Louisa Charless Farwell
(
m. 1878)
Charles Carroll Soule (June 25, 1842 – January 7, 1913) was an American
bookman with a side specialty in the architecture of
libraries . Born in
Boston to Richard Soule Jr. (1812–1877) and Harriet Winsor (1816–1905)
[1] he attended the
Boston Latin School and
Harvard College (1862), and fought in the Civil War (44th and 55th
Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantries).
[2]
After the war he engaged in public speaking about post-slavery
reconciliation in
Orangeburg County, South Carolina .
[3]
In the 1870s he worked in
St. Louis in the publishing firm of Soule, Thomas & Winsor.
[4]
[5] In the 1880s he ran a business selling law books from offices in
Pemberton Square , Boston,
[6] and in 1886 opened a bookshop in a former church on
Beacon Street , near the
Boston Athenaeum .
[7] He established the Boston Book Company in 1889, and established
The Green Bag , a legal news magazine with
Horace Williams Fuller as editor. He belonged to the
American Library Association .
[8]
He married Louisa Charless Farwell in 1878 and had 4 children.
[1] Towards the end of his life he resided in
Brookline .
See also
References
^
a
b
"Sprague Project" . Richard E. Weber. Retrieved October 8, 2014 .
^
"10 June 1863" . Civil War Day by Day . University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved October 8, 2014 .
^ Julie Saville (1996). The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870 . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-56625-4 .
^
Publishers Weekly , June 25, 1881
^ Roberta S. Trites (2009). Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel . University of Iowa Press.
ISBN
978-1-58729-770-0 .
^ Dickinson, Samuel Nelson (1885).
"Booksellers and Publishers" . Boston Almanac and Business Directory .
^
"Obituary" , Publishers Weekly , January 11, 1913
^ "Charles Carroll Soule", Public Libraries , vol. 18, Chicago: Library Bureau, February 1913,
hdl :
2027/uc1.$b776645
Further reading
By Soule
Soule & Bugbee's Legal Bibliography , Boston 1881-1890. (with James A. Bugbee)
Charles C. Soule (1883).
The lawyer's reference manual of law books and citations . Soule and Bugbee.
Boston Book Company's Check-list of American and English Periodicals . Boston Book Company. 1892.
Charles C. Soule (1892),
"Points of agreement among librarians as to library architecture" , Proceedings of the ... Meeting ... at San Francisco , American Library Association
"Bulletin of Bibliography" . Boston Book Company. 1979. circa 1900s.
v.3 (1902)
Charles C. Soule (1902), Library Rooms and Buildings , Library Tract, Boston: Published for the American Library Association by Houghton, Mifflin & Company,
OCLC
4124924 ,
OL
7169752M
Charles Carroll Soule (1912).
How to plan a library building for library work . Boston Book Co.
About Soule
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