Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — PROMINENT MAN PASSES AWAY. [ARTICLE]

PROMINENT MAN PASSES AWAY.

Death, of George Routledge, the Famous London Publisher. George Routledge, the founder of the famous publishing house of Routledge & Sons, died in London. He imd been seriously ill, since October, and had given up all active business for a year. He had been in business just half a century when he retired. Mr. Routledge made a popular success with ‘‘Barpes’ Notes on the Old and New Testaments," with Dr. Cummin as editor. In 1848 he began the famous "Railway Library,” with Fenimore Cooper’s “Pilot" as the initial issue. In 1852 he began the publication in England of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and up to last year had issued over half a million copies of the story. He became Bulwer Lytton’s publisher in 1853, and in 1854 went to’ America and started the New York branch of the firm. The firm has a branch house on Lafayette place, New York.