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'Alfred Smith Barnes' (born
January 28,
1817 in
New Haven, Connecticut; died
February 17,
1888 in
Brooklyn, New York) was an American publisher.
Publishing Company
He founded the A.S. Barnes publishing company when he was 16, and it soon became the leading publisher of
textbooks in the United States. In the 1950s, they became the major publisher of sports reference books, with groundbreaking books such as ''The Baseball Encyclopedia'' by
Hy Turkin and
S.C. Thompson and
Roger Treat's ''Football Encyclopedia.'' Both titles represented the first entry in the genre for their respective sports.
In addition to its prominence in the fields of textbook and sports publishing, A. S. Barnes & Co. was a major general publisher of titles on an enormous range of subjects.
Barnes managed his company until his retirement in 1880. The company continued to publish until 1982.
[N.B.: Bibliographic entries sometimes cite this publisher as "Barnes", omitting the initials "A. S."]
Philanthropy
Barnes was a major benefactor of
Cornell University and one of the chief proponents of building an
elevated railroad in
New York City
External links
★
Entry at FamousAmericans.net
★
Article on Major American Publishers
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