Daniel Collamore Heath

Daniel Collamore Heath (1843–1908) was the founder of D. C. Heath and Company, part of Houghton Mifflin.

Daniel Collamore Heath (1843-1908)

Biography
Ginn and Heath, the predecessor to D.C. Heath and Co.

Daniel C. Heath was born in Salem, Maine on October 26, 1843.[1][2] He studied at Nichols Latin School and Bates College (then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating from Amherst College in 1868. Heath worked as a high school principal for two years before briefly attending Bangor Theological Seminary. After traveling through Europe for a year, Heath returned to the United States and worked for Edwin Ginn, a publisher. Together they started a firm called Ginn & Heath. Heath then sold his interest in the company and founded D. C. Heath and Company in Boston in 1886.[1][2]

He married Nellie Jones Knox on January 6, 1881, and they had four children.[2]

He died at his home in Newtonville, Massachusetts on January 29, 1908.[2]

References
  1. Bacon, Edwin M., ed. (1896). Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: The New England Magazine. pp. 879–881. Retrieved February 12, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. "D. C. Heath Dies in Newton". The Boston Globe. Newton. January 29, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved February 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  • Eliot, Samuel A., Biographical History of Massachusetts, (Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1909), 23-27
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