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]
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) |
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 edit
- Saint Paul Public Library, Minnesota, designed by Soule
References edit
- ^ 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 edit
- 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.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) 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
External links edit
- Group of Librarians in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1901, archived from the original on 2014-10-14, retrieved 2014-10-08 – via University of Illinois (photo portrait, shows Soule in center)
- "Soule & Bugbee's Legal Bibliography (1881-1890)". Law Librarians blog. US Library of Congress. 2014.
- Portrait of Soule?, circa 1860s
- WorldCat. Soule, Charles C. (Charles Carroll) 1842-1913
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