Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — Published First City Directory. [ARTICLE]

Published First City Directory.

Cincinnati. 0., July 19.—Benjamin T. Redman, said to have been the first directory-publisher in the United States, died at the Widows’ and Old Men’s Home on Walnut Hill, aged 93 years. “The Old Colonial Directory.” a combined directory of Philadelphia and New York, reputed to be the first one in America, was issued by Redman.