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George Harrison Mifflin (1845 - 1921) was an executive in the publishing business. He served as president of
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. Mifflin was born in Boston. He graduated from Harvard. He joined Hurd and Houghton in 1867 and worked for its subsidiary
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. He partnered with Henry Oscar Houghton in 1872. Houghton died in 1895 and Mifflin took over leadership of the company. He communicated with some of its prominent authors through good times and bad. Mifflin was at first skeptical of the company's investment in educational publishing. He was socially connected to Sarah Wyman Whitman, who designed elegant book covers for the business. He died in Boston at aged 75.


Further reading

*''The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin ’s Formative Years'' by Ellen B. Ballou, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1970 *"George H. Mifflin", ''Cambridge Tribune'' XLIV.6 April 9, 1921


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{{US-business-bio-stub 1845 births American business executives People from Boston 1921 deaths Harvard College alumni