Thomas Young Crowell (1836–1915) was an American bookbinder and publisher, the founder of New York City book publishing company

Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Thomas Y. Crowell Co. was a publishing company founded by Thomas Y. Crowell. The company began as a bookbindery founded by Benjamin Bradley in 1834. Crowell operated the business after Bradley's death in 1862 and eventually purchased the compan ...

Crowell operated the

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of Benjamin Bradley, deceased 1862, and acquired it in 1870. He started publishing in 1876. He had at least two sons: T. Irving Crowell, who joined the business in 1882, and Jeremiah Osborne Crowell, who was the sales manager in 1882. During his leadership of Thomas Y. Crowell Co., the company issued a profitable line of

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and a variety of

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titles also. He died in 1909 at the age of 73 and was succeeded by his son T. Irving Crowell (who was later succeeded by a third generation Robert L. Crowell). Crowell published Edward Ingle's ''Southern Sidelight; a picture of Social and Economic Life in the South a Generation Before the War'' Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1896).

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''. July 30, 1915. 1915 deaths American publishers (people) 1836 births North Yarmouth Academy alumni 19th-century American businesspeople {{US-publish-bio-stub