Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the
A. B. Dick Company, 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 or stencil machine) is a low-cost duplicating machine that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. The process is called mimeography, and a co ...
".
Dick attended school in
Galesburg, Illinois
Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is northwest of Peoria, Illinois, Peoria. At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, its population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County and the principal cit ...
, 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.
[
Dick lived in ]Lake Forest, Illinois
Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,367. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and t ...
.[ He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.]
References
Further reading
* Buck, Glen. ''Fifty Years 1884-1934, 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 American, English descent. ...
and photographs by Torkel Korling.)
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