Charles Carroll Soule, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles Carroll Soule

American publisher

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1842

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1913

Profession: bookseller

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Charles Carroll Soule

  • 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) he attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard College (1862), and fought in the Civil War (44th and 55th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantries).
  • After the war he engaged in public speaking about post-slavery reconciliation in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.In the 1870s he worked in St.
  • Louis in the publishing firm of Soule, Thomas & Winsor. In the 1880s he ran a business selling law books from offices in Pemberton Square, Boston, and in 1886 opened a bookshop in a former church on Beacon Street, near the Boston Athenaeum.
  • 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.He married Louisa Charless Farwell in 1878 and had 4 children.
  • Towards the end of his life he resided in Brookline.

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