Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the
A. B. Dick Company
The A. B. Dick Company (later stylized as ABDick) was a major American manufacturer of copy machines and office supplies in the late 19th century and 20th centuries.
Founding and growth
The company was founded in 1883 in Chicago as a lumber compa ...
, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century.
He coined the word "
mimeograph
A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a copy made by the proc ...
".
Dick attended school in
Galesburg, Illinois
Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is northwest of Peoria. At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County and the principal city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical ...
, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883. It was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies.
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Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois.][ He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.]
References
Further reading
* Buck, Glen. ''Fifty Years 1884-1834, A. B. Dick Company''. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
Biography
Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York. Kent was of English descent. He lived much of ...
and photographs by Torkel Korling
Torkel Korling (April 24, 1903 – October 22, 1998) was a Swedish-born American industrial, commercial, portrait and botanical photographer.
Early life
Torkel Korling was born into a 400-year line of Lutheran Church choir directors and organists ...
.)
External links
Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company
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1856 births
1934 deaths
American manufacturing businesspeople
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
People from Galesburg, Illinois
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19th-century American businesspeople