Albert Dick
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Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the A.B. Dick Company, a major American copier and office supply company of the 20th Century.[1] He coined the word "mimeograph".[citation needed]
Dick attended school in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883; it was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies.[1]
Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois.[1] His son Sheldon relied on the Dick fortune in support of his career in publishing, photography, and film.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Men of Affairs". Chicago Evening Post. 1906. http://www.archive.org/stream/menofaffairsgall00chic#page/89/mode/1up. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- Glen Buck. Fifty Years 1884-1834, A.B. Dick Company. (Chicago, IL: A.B. Dick Company, c1934). Note: "Written by Glen Buck, with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling. This book was made at Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1934. "
[edit] External links
- Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company
- "Albert Dick". Find a Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9647. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
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