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Switzerland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lawrenceville_School" title="Lawrenceville School">Lawrenceville School</a><br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> (1840)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Emma Elizabeth Blair<br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1846; died 1869)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Blair_Scribner" title="John Blair Scribner">John Blair Scribner</a><br />Emma Locke Scribner<br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner_II" title="Charles Scribner II">Charles Scribner II</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hawley_Scribner" title="Arthur Hawley Scribner">Arthur Hawley Scribner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Uriah Rogers Scribner<br />Betsey Hawley</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner_III" title="Charles Scribner III">Charles Scribner III</a> (grandson)<br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner_IV" title="Charles Scribner IV">Charles Scribner IV</a> (great-grandson)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Charles Scribner I</b> (February 21, 1821 – August 26, 1871)<sup id="cite_ref-CSObit1871_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSObit1871-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American publisher who, with Isaac D. Baker (1819–1850),<sup id="cite_ref-[BDA1906]_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-[BDA1906]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> founded a <a href="/wiki/Publishing" title="Publishing">publishing</a> company that would eventually become <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Charles Scribner's Sons</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Scribner_I&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scribner was born in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> on February 21, 1821. He was the son of Uriah Rogers Scribner (1778–1853) and Betsey (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Hawley) Scribner (1787–1871).<sup id="cite_ref-Selleck1896_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Selleck1896-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among his siblings were the Rev. William Scribner and Walter Scribner, a <a href="/wiki/Druggist" class="mw-redirect" title="Druggist">druggist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lyon1914_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lyon1914-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sister Martha was the wife of <a href="/wiki/George_W._Schuyler" title="George W. Schuyler">George W. Schuyler</a>, and their family included sons <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Schuyler" title="Eugene Schuyler">Eugene Schuyler</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Walter_S._Schuyler" title="Walter S. Schuyler">Walter S. Schuyler</a>, as well as grandson <a href="/wiki/Walter_S._Grant" title="Walter S. Grant">Walter S. Grant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He attended the <a href="/wiki/Lawrenceville_School" title="Lawrenceville School">Lawrenceville School</a> from 1834 to 1837.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a year's study at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he entered <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a> and graduated with the class of 1840.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He began the study of law, but was obliged by ill health to make a trip to Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Scribner_I&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After returning from Europe, in 1846 Scribner became the younger partner of Baker in forming a new kind of publishing house under the firm name of Baker and Scribner. Unlike traditional houses, which were generally outgrowths of printing companies or book sellers, theirs would exist purely as a publisher. This had an influence on the character of its publications, which were chiefly confined to the works of contemporary authors.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also published Presbyterian philosophy books.<sup id="cite_ref-CSObit1871_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSObit1871-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the death of Baker in 1850,<sup id="cite_ref-[BDA1906]_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-[BDA1906]-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scribner gained control of the company, renaming it Charles Scribner, and then Charles Scribner and Company. With Charles Welford, who died in May 1885, he formed the house of Scribner and Welford in 1857 for the importation of foreign books.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1865, Charles Scribner and Co. made its first venture into magazine publishing with <i>Hours at Home</i>, a monthly magazine. In 1870 this magazine was merged into <i><a href="/wiki/Scribner%27s_Monthly" title="Scribner's Monthly">Scribner's Monthly</a></i> under the editorship of <a href="/wiki/Josiah_G._Holland" class="mw-redirect" title="Josiah G. Holland">Josiah G. Holland</a>, and published by a separate company, Scribner and Co., with Dr. Holland and Roswell Smith as part owners.<sup id="cite_ref-CSObit1871_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSObit1871-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon Scribner's death the next year in August 1871, Charles Scribner and Co. was reorganized as Scribner, Armstrong, and Co. The partners in the new firm were Scribner's eldest son, <a href="/wiki/John_Blair_Scribner" title="John Blair Scribner">John Blair Scribner</a>, Andrew C. Armstrong, and Edward Seymour. In 1877, the publication house moved to 743 Broadway. Upon Seymour's death in April 1877, and Armstrong's retirement in 1878, the firm-name was changed to <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Charles Scribner's Sons</a>, under which form the business was conducted after John Blair Scribner's death in 1879 by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner_II" title="Charles Scribner II">Charles Scribner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_H._Scribner" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur H. Scribner">Arthur H. Scribner</a>, younger brothers of John Blair.<sup id="cite_ref-appletons_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appletons-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Scribner_I&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1846, Scribner was married to Emma Elizabeth Blair (1827–1869), daughter of the magnate <a href="/wiki/John_Insley_Blair" title="John Insley Blair">John Insley Blair</a> and Nancy Ann (née Locke) Blair. Her brother <a href="/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton_Blair" title="DeWitt Clinton Blair">DeWitt Clinton Blair</a>, continued their father's business and his son, <a href="/wiki/C._Ledyard_Blair" title="C. Ledyard Blair">C. Ledyard Blair</a>, was a prominent investment banker. Together, they were the parents of: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Blair_Scribner" title="John Blair Scribner">John Blair Scribner</a> (1850–1879), who married <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Skidmore_Scribner" title="Lucy Skidmore Scribner">Lucy Ann Hawley Skidmore</a> (1853–1931) in 1875.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death, she founded <a href="/wiki/Skidmore_College" title="Skidmore College">Skidmore College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Emma Locke Scribner (1852–1922), who married Walter Cranston Larned (1850–1914), art editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Daily_News" title="Chicago Daily News">Chicago Daily News</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-WCLObit1914_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WCLObit1914-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1922SuicideAttempt_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1922SuicideAttempt-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner_II" title="Charles Scribner II">Charles Scribner II</a> (1854–1930), who married Louise Flagg (1862–1948), daughter of priest and painter <a href="/wiki/Jared_Bradley_Flagg" title="Jared Bradley Flagg">Jared Bradley Flagg</a> and sister of architect <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Flagg" title="Ernest Flagg">Ernest Flagg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Hawley_Scribner" title="Arthur Hawley Scribner">Arthur Hawley Scribner</a> (1859–1932), who married Helen Annan (1868–1928).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>He died of <a href="/wiki/Typhoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Typhoid">typhoid</a> on August 26, 1871, while traveling in <a href="/wiki/Lucerne" title="Lucerne">Lucerne</a>, Switzerland.<sup id="cite_ref-CSObit1871_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CSObit1871-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is interred in the family plot at <a href="/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery,_Bronx" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx">Woodlawn Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">the Bronx</a>, New York City. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Widow of John Blair Scribner Succumbs After Long Illness at Age of 77. Known as Philanthropist. Gifts to Girls' College She Started and Whose Trustees She Headed Put at $1,000,000"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. May 4, 1931<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 25,</span> 2008</span>. <q>Mrs. Lucy Skidmore Scribner, widow of John Blair Scribner, died yesterday afternoon at her home at 791 North Broadway after having been in poor health for several months. 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(Skidmore School of Arts founded in 1911, changed to Skidmore College in 1922), relict of John Blair Scribner who was the eldest son of Charles Scribner (books); in Saratoga Springs,</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=Died&rft.date=1931-05-11&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C741673-2%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Scribner+I" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-WCLObit1914-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-WCLObit1914_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTimes1914" class="citation news cs1">Times, Special to The New York (June 20, 1914). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/20/101755492.pdf">"Walter Cranston Larned Dead"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 24,</span> 2008</span>. <q>Charles Scribner, chairman of the Board of Directors of the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Avenue, which was founded by his father, died suddenly at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon of heart ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Charles+Scribner+Dies+suddenly+at+76.+Publisher+Succumbs+to+Heart+Disease+at+Home+Here.+Was+at+Desk+Thursday.+Entered+Firm+as+Youth.+Directed+Business+His+Father+Founded.+Fostered+Work+of+American+Authors.+Firm+Founded+in+1846.+Received+Honorary+Degree.&rft.date=1930-04-20&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1930%2F04%2F20%2Farchives%2Fcharles-scribner-dies-suddenly-at-76-publisher-succumbs-to-heart.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Scribner+I" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1932/07/04/archives/ahscribnerdead-headed-boor-firm-son-of-founder-of-noted-pub-lishing.html">"A. H. Scribner Dead. Headed Book Firm. Son of Founder of Noted Publishing House Is Victim of Heart Attack in His Sleep. Was Active for Princeton. Permanent President of His Class of '81 and an Organizer and First Head of the Ivy Club"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. July 4, 1932<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 24,</span> 2008</span>. <q>Arthur Hawley Scribner, president of the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons, died of a heart attack In his sleep early ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=A.+H.+Scribner+Dead.+Headed+Book+Firm.+Son+of+Founder+of+Noted+Publishing+House+Is+Victim+of+Heart+Attack+in+His+Sleep.+Was+Active+for+Princeton.+Permanent+President+of+His+Class+of+%2781+and+an+Organizer+and+First+Head+of+the+Ivy+Club.&rft.date=1932-07-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1932%2F07%2F04%2Farchives%2Fahscribnerdead-headed-boor-firm-son-of-founder-of-noted-pub-lishing.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Scribner+I" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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