Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joshua Bertram LIPPINCOTT
Joshua Bertram, B.A., Publisher of Philadelphia; b . 24th August, 1857; graduate Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, 1873; University of Pennsylvania one year, class of 1878; Hon. B.A. 1907; entered father's publishing house, 1875; Vice-President since 1886 J. B. Lippincott Company; succeeded brother Craige as President, 1911; President Hibernia Mine Railroad; Vice-President Wharton Steel Company; Director Farmers and Mechanics National Bank; Trustee University of Pennsylvania; Director Mercantile Library, American Academy of Music; Member Geographical Society of Philadelphia; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Union League, Art, University, Franklin Inn and Poor Richard Clubs; m. 21st April, 1885, Joanna WHARTON, of Philadelphia, dau. of Joseph and Anna (LOVERING) WHARTON.
Publisher. He was the son of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, a well known Philadelphia publisher and bookseller. Lippincott attended both the Penn Charter School and the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia. He began studies at the University of Pennsylvania but left at the end of his freshman year to work his father's publishing house. He became a member of the firm in January, 1884, and after its incorporation in 1887, and his father's death in 1886, he became the president of the J. B. Lippincott Company. In addition to books, the company published "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine" which featured new work by American authors like Stephen Crane, and saw the first publication of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott was a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, a director of the Academy of Music, and a member of the Union League. (bio by: rjschat
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