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On George Palmer Putnam's death in 1872, the business was inherited by his sons George, John and Irving, and the firm's name was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. [3] The eldest son, George H. Putnam, became president of the firm and held the position for over fifty years.
George Palmer Putnam was born in Rye, New York on September 7, 1887, the son of John Bishop Putnam and the grandson of his namesake, George Palmer Putnam, founder of the prominent publishing firm that became G. P. Putnam's Sons. He studied at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
George Putnam published his father's memoirs in 1912. George Palmer Putnam's grandson and namesake, George P. Putnam (1887–1950), was part of the family business but was also an author and explorer whose first wife was Dorothy Binney , the daughter of Edwin Binney who founded Crayola; after their divorce, he married the famous aviator Amelia ...
George Putnam (1889–1960), great-great-grandson of Judge Samuel Putnam, founder of Putnam Investments; his son George Putnam, retired chairman Putnam Investments; and grandson George Putnam III, Chairman, Putnam Investments; George D. Putnam (born 1948), screenwriter; George Haven Putnam (1844–1930), book entrepreneur & publishing-family member
The eldest son of publisher George Palmer Putnam and Victorine Haven Putnam, he was born in London, UK where his father had been living since 1841 while establishing a branch office for his New York City publishing company, Wiley & Putnam. In 1848 the family returned to the United States, settling at Stapleton, New York, on Staten Island. Haven ...
George Herbert Putnam was born in New York City at 107 East Seventeenth Street, [4] the sixth son and tenth child of Victorine and George Palmer Putnam.The father, one-time collector of internal revenue in New York by appointment of Abraham Lincoln, was the founder of a well-known publishing house, [5] known previously as the Putnam Publishing house, but now known as G. P. Putnam's Sons.
The couple went on to welcome two more children together, sons Stephen in 1946 and Carey in 1949, before separating in January 1953 and divorcing in 1954, per the San Bernardino County Sun.
George D. Putnam (born 1948), screenwriter, Unlawful Entry; George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872), founder of the publishing firm that became G. P. Putnam's Sons; George Haven Putnam (1844–1930), American soldier, publisher, author, son of George Palmer Putnam; George Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), lawyer, publisher, librarian of Library of ...