William E. Benjamin
William Evarts Benjamin (1859 – 1940) was a prominent publisher and collector in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
William E. Benjamin was born in 1859. His most well-known work was the printing and extensive promotion of Edmund Clarence Stedman's A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, which his company published in 1894.
Benjamin married Anne Engle Rogers, eldest daughter of Abbie Palmer (née Gifford) Rogers and Henry Huttleston Rogers, an industrialist millionaire who was a principal of Standard Oil. They had two children, Beatrice Benjamin Cartwright and Henry Rogers Benjamin.
After 1900, when Mark Twain went bankrupt investing in the Paige Compositor, Benjamin and his father-in-law assisted him financially by taking control of his accounts and real estate.[1]
Benjamin died in 1940 and is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in New York.
References
- ↑ Hill, Hamlin. Mark Twain: God's Fool. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973: 10. ISBN 978-0-226-33647-3
