Charles Carroll Soule | |
Birth Date: | June 25, 1842 |
Birth Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Death Place: | Brookline, Massachusetts |
Burial Place: | Walnut Hills Cemetery |
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Occupation: | Bookman |
Known For: | Founder of The Green Bag |
Charles Carroll Soule (June 25, 1842 – January 7, 1913) was an American bookman with a side specialty in the architecture of libraries. Born in Boston to Richard Soule Jr. (1812 - 1877) and Harriet Winsor (1816 - 1905) he attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard College (1862), and fought in the Civil War (44th and 55th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantries).[1] After the war he engaged in public speaking about post-slavery reconciliation in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.[2]
In the 1870s he worked in St. Louis in the publishing firm of Soule, Thomas & Winsor.[3] In the 1880s he ran a business selling law books from offices in Pemberton Square, Boston,[4] and in 1886 opened a bookshop in a former church on Beacon Street, near the Boston Athenaeum. He established the Boston Book Company in 1889, and established The Green Bag, a legal news magazine with Horace Williams Fuller as editor. He belonged to the American Library Association.
He married Louisa Charless Farwell in 1878 and had 4 children.[5] Towards the end of his life he resided in Brookline.