Daniel Collamore Heath (1843–1908) was the founder of D. C. Heath and Company, part of

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Biography

Daniel C. Heath was born in

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on October 26, 1843. He studied at

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and

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(then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating from Amherst College in 1868. Heath worked as a high school principal for two years before briefly attending Bangor Theological Seminary. After traveling through Europe for a year, Heath returned to the United States and worked for

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, a publisher. Together they started a firm called Ginn & Heath. Heath then sold his interest in the company and founded D. C. Heath and Company in Boston in 1886. He married Nellie Jones Knox on January 6, 1881, and they had four children. He died at his home in

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on January 29, 1908.

References

*Eliot, Samuel A., ''Biographical History of Massachusetts'', (Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1909)
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