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Name
  
George Rowell


George P. Rowell

Died
  
August 28, 1908, Poland, Maine, United States

Books
  
Forty Years an Advertising Agent, 1865-1905

George Presbury Rowell (July 4, 1838 - August 28, 1908) was an American advertising executive and publisher. He founded Printer's Ink, the first advertising trade magazine, in 1888.

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Life and career

In the early 1860s, Rowell opened an advertising agency in Boston. He offered advertising space in New England newspapers and eventually nationwide. In 1869, he issued the first Rowell’s American Newspaper Directory listing 5,778 American papers. Eventually, he opened an office on the ground floor of the New York Times building.

Rowell died in Poland Spring, Maine.

References

George P. Rowell Wikipedia


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