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Life and career

Forbes was born in New Deer,

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, Scotland, the son of Agnes (Moir) and Robert Forbes, a storekeeper and tailor at Whitehill, one of their ten children. After studying at

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(then part of the

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), in 1897 Forbes worked as a reporter and editorial writer with a local newspaper until 1901 when he moved to

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, South Africa, where he worked on the '' Rand Daily Mail'' under its first editor, Edgar Wallace. He emigrated to

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in the United States in 1904 where he was employed as a writer and financial editor at the '' Journal of Commerce'' before joining the Hearst chain of newspapers as a syndicated columnist in 1911. After two years he became the business and financial editor at Hearst's ''

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'' where he remained until 1916. He founded ''

'' magazine in 1917 and remained

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until his death in New York City in 1954, though assisted in his later years by

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(1916–1964) and Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919–1990), his two eldest sons. Forbes was the founder of the

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in 1942. He died on May 6, 1954. In 1988, his body was returned to his native Scotland, and lies buried in the New Deer Churchyard at Hill of Culsh in New Deer, Aberdeenshire. While living abroad, he returned to Buchan every two years, staying in the Cruden Bay Hotel, "to entertain people of Whitehill to a picnic". It was a tradition revived by his son, Malcolm, in 1987.

Published works

B.C. Forbes authored several books: *'' Finance, Business and the Business of Life'' (1915) *''

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'' (1923) *'' Automotive Giants of America'' (1925) *''

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'' (1952) *'' America's Twelve Master Salesmen'' (1952)

References

Bibliography

External links

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Online Books by B. C. Forbes
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The Online Books Page
at Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center
B. C. Forbes quotes
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