Daniel Collamore Heath

Who was Daniel Collamore Heath?

Daniel Collamore Heath was the founder of D. C. Heath and Company, part of Houghton Mifflin.

Daniel C. Heath was born in Franklin County, Maine in 1843. He studied at Nichols Latin School and Bates College 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 Edwin Ginn, 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 1885. He died in 1908.