Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the
A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century.
He coined the word "
mimeograph".
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.
[
Dick lived in ]Lake Forest, Illinois
Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 19,367. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. Lake Forest ...
.[ He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.]
References
Further reading
* Buck, Glen. ''Fifty Years 1884-1834, A. B. Dick Company''. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling.)
External links
Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company
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1856 births
1934 deaths
American manufacturing businesspeople
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
People from Galesburg, Illinois
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19th-century American businesspeople