Frank Nelson Doubleday
Entrepreneur, Organization founder
1862 – 1934
Who was Frank Nelson Doubleday?
Frank Nelson Doubleday, known to friends and family as “Effendi”, founded the eponymous Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897, which later operated under other names. Starting work at the age of 14 after his father's business failed, Doubleday began with Charles Scribner's Sons in New York.
His son Nelson Doubleday, son-in-law John Turner Sargent, Sr. and grandson Nelson Doubleday, Jr. all worked in the company and led it through different periods. In 1986, after years of changes in the publishing business, his grandson Nelson Doubleday, Jr. as president sold the Doubleday Company to the German group Bertelsmann.
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- Born
- Jan 8, 1862
Brooklyn - Spouses
- Neltje Blanchan
(1886/06/09 - )
- Neltje Blanchan
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 30, 1934
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on July 23, 2013
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