Charles Carroll Soule | |
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Born | June 25, 1842 |
Died | January 7, 1913 | (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.
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Charles Carroll Soule | |
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Born | June 25, 1842 |
Died | January 7, 1913 | (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.
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