The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . New-man & Co. The most important school-books pub-lished by them at that time were Saunderss read-ers, the first consecutive set of school-readers pub-lished in America. In 1841 a
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . New-man & Co. The most important school-books pub-lished by them at that time were Saunderss read-ers, the first consecutive set of school-readers pub-lished in America. In 1841 a new partnership wasformed, the name of the firm becoming Newman& Ivison. Mr. Newman dying before the end of thefirst year, Mr. Ivison bought out the entire interestof the concern, reorganized the business and tookinto partnership H. F. Phinney, of Cooperstown,N. Y., an experienced bookseller and son-in-law ofJ. Fenimore Cooper. The firm then became Ivi-son & Phinney, and later, Ivison, Phinney & Blake-man. One of the first acts of the new concern wasto reduce the time of credit to wholesale buyers; amovement that has since been followed by mostschool-book buyers. The firm published more than300 different school-books, and the sales therefromreached magnificent proportions. Successful school-book publishing represents immense capital, sagac-ity and business entei-prise. Mr. Ivison attributed. lAi/yiisy/n^m his success to industry, economy and strict adher-ence to the one line of publication the characteristics of Mr. Ivisons busi-ness life the finest qualities of head and heart wereever conspicuous. To his partners and employeeshe was like the head of a family, and his sunny in-fluence pervaded every department of his is said he never had a harsh word with a partner;that he never sued or was sued in hit life, and thatno piece of his business paper ever passed died in New York city Nov. 26, 1884. HAIjLi, Benjamin Homer, lawyer and author,
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