1. William Davis Ticknor I was an American publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and a founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
16 Facts About William Ticknor
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William Davis Ticknor was born on August 6,1810, on the outskirts of Lebanon, New Hampshire, the oldest boy of nine brothers and sisters.
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William Ticknor's cousin was the famous writer and historian George Ticknor, and his granddaughter Caroline Ticknor was a biographer and short story writer.
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William Ticknor was first employed in the brokerage house of his uncle Benjamin.
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In 1832 he went into partnership with John Allen forming the publishing house of Allen and William Ticknor which operated out of the Old Corner Bookstore.
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William Ticknor was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery.
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William Ticknor was later commissioned as captain of Company E and was in command of the recruiting camp at Readville, Massachusetts.
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William Ticknor resigned from service shortly after his father's death.
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William Ticknor was the first American publisher to pay foreign authors for the rights to their works, beginning with a check to Alfred Tennyson in 1842.
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William Ticknor was a director of the Boston Lyceum, treasurer of the American Institute of Instruction, a trustee of the Perkins Institute, and a leading member of the School Committee.
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William Ticknor was a resident member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
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Shortly after the firm contracted for Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, William Ticknor became a close friend and advisor to Hawthorne.
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William Ticknor caught what he assumed was a cold before leaving Boston, and Hawthorne later wrote home that his friend had eaten bad oysters.
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William Ticknor had previously seemed uncomfortable, but not to an alarming degree.
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George William Ticknor Childs arrived shortly after and accompanied the distraught and grieving Hawthorne back to Boston.
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William Ticknor was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery; the distinguished of both literary and business circles came to pay their final tribute.