Frank Nelson Doubleday

The New Netherland Ancestors of

FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY



Publisher, Publishing House Founder




	    __John Tilden Doubleday2
	   |
       __William Edwards Doubleday2
      |    |
      |    |     __Mason Whiting2,3,4
      |    |    |
      |    |__Mary Elizabeth Whiting2
      |         |
      |         |          __JONATHAN EDWARDS4
      |         |         |
      |         |     __Timothy Edwards4
      |         |    |    |
      |         |    |    |     __James Pierpont4,5
      |         |    |    |    |
      |         |    |    |__Sarah Pierpont4
      |         |    |         |
      |         |    |         |     __Samuel Hooker5
      |         |    |         |    |
      |         |    |         |__Mary Hooker4,5
      |         |    |              |
      |         |    |              |     __Thomas Willet6
      |         |    |              |    |
      |         |    |              |__Mary Willet5
      |         |    |                   |
      |         |    |                   |__Mary Brown6
      |         |    |
      |         |__Mary Edwards2,3,4
      |              |
      |              |                    __John Ogden10
      |              |                   |
      |              |               __Jonathan Ogden9
      |              |              |    |
      |              |              |    |__Jane Bond10
      |              |              |
      |              |          __Robert Ogden8
      |              |         |    |
      |              |         |    |__Rebekah (possibly Wood)9
      |              |         |
      |              |     __Robert Ogden4,7
      |              |    |    |
      |              |    |    |     __Jasper Crane8
      |              |    |    |    |
      |              |    |    |__Hannah Crane8
      |              |    |         |
      |              |    |         |__Joanna Swaine8
      |              |    |
      |              |__Rhoda Ogden4
      |                   |
      |                   |               __Matthias Hatfield11
      |                   |              |
      |                   |          __Isaac Hatfield11
      |                   |         |    |
      |                   |         |    |     __Cornelis Melyn11
      |                   |         |    |    |
      |                   |         |    |__Maria Melyn11
      |                   |         |         |
      |                   |         |         |__Janneken Adriaens11
      |                   |         |
      |                   |     __Matthias Hatfield7,11
      |                   |    |    |
      |                   |    |    |__(__)11
      |                   |    |
      |                   |__Phebe Hatfield4,7
      |                        |
      |                        |__Hannah Miller7
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FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY1
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      |__Ellen Maria Dickinson2



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Biography of FRANK NELSON DOUBLEDAY

 
Modern publishing history is a history of acquisitions and mergers. The publisher Doubleday exemplifies this, but its record also demonstrates that publishing good books is a viable long-term business strategy.

Frank Nelson Doubleday started his career in publishing in 1876 as a fourteen-year-old apprentice at Scribner's. He eventually worked his way up to business manager for Scribner's Magazine and then to manager of the subscription department. Here, he began to offer customers sets of books in return for a year's subscription to the magazine, initiating this marketing strategy with the offer of a uniform set of Rudyard Kipling's novels (to date). In 1897, Doubleday left Scribner's and threw his lot in with McClure's Magazine, forming the publishing company of Doubleday and McClure. During its three-year existence, this partnership published Alfred Olivant's Bob, Son of Battle (1898), Rudyard Kipling's The Day's Work (1898), and Frank Norris' McTeague (1899).

On January 1, 1900, Doubleday, Page and Company opened for business, marking the beginning of a new partnership between Frank Doubleday and Walter Hines Page, the former editor of the Atlantic and a social reformer. This firm proved an immediate and lasting success. Over the years, it published the work of Joseph Conrad, Booth Tarkington, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kate Douglas Wiggins, O. Henry, Joel Chandler Harris, Sinclair Lewis, Gene Stratton-Porter, Edna Ferber, T. E. Lawrence, and, of course, Rudyard Kipling and Frank Norris. Doubleday then merged with the George H. Doran Company in 1927, making Doubleday, Doran and Company the largest publishing concern in the English-speaking world. The business became known in 1946 as Doubleday and Company.

In 1986, the company changed ownership when Bertelsmann, AG, a global communications company based in Germany, bought the publishing house of Doubleday. The firm then became a part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group in 1988, and this conglomerate went on to acquire and become Random House Incorporated in 1998. Already one year later, Random House Inc. with its various imprints could boast of publishing forty percent of the hardcover bestsellers and one-third of all paperback bestsellers. The age of the media giants has arrived.
 


 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Edwards, William H., Timothy and Rhoda Ogden Edwards of Stockbridge,
       Mass., and Their Descendants:  a Genealogy.  Cincinnati:  The Robert
       Clarke Company, 1903.  130.
   2.  Ibid., p. 127-128.
   3.  Ibid., p. 28-29.
   4.  Smith, Elizur Yale, "The Descendants of William Edwards Colonist of
       Connecticut Colony, 1639," The New York Genealogical and Biographical
       Record, 71 (1940):  216-224, 323-333; 72 (1941):  56-61, 124-132,
       213-220, 320-331; 73 (1942):  173-189, 251-254; 90 (1959):  193-197; 91
       (1960):  6-16, 110-118, 153-166, 233-235; 92 (1961):  23-34, 80-88,
       141-152, 221-226; 93 (1962):  13-21, 106-113, 143-148, 221-225; 94
       (1963):  15-26, 75-83, 148-154.
   5.  Willett, Albert James, Jr., The Willett Families of North America,
       Volume I.  Easley:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.  15.
   6.  Ibid., p. 1-15.
   7.  Wheeler, William Ogden.  The Ogden Family in America.  Philadelphia:
       J.B. Lippincott Company, 1907.  78-84.
   8.  Ibid., p. 58-60.
   9.  Ibid., p. 45-46.
  10.  Ibid., p. 39-40.
  11.  Burton, Paul Gibson, "Cornelis Melyn, Patroon of Staten Island and Some
       of His Descendants," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record,
       68 (1937):  3-17, 132-146, 217-231, 357-365.

 

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