Daniel Collamore Heath (1843–1908) was the founder of

D. C. Heath and Company D.C. Heath and Company was an American publishing company located at 125 Spring Street in Lexington, Massachusetts, specializing in textbooks. History The company was founded in Boston by Edwin Ginn and Daniel Collamore Heath in 1885.D.C Heat ...

, part of Houghton Mifflin.

Biography

Daniel C. Heath was born in Salem, Maine on October 26, 1843. He studied at Nichols Latin School and Bates College (then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating from

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

in 1868. Heath worked as a high school principal for two years before briefly attending

Bangor Theological Seminary Bangor Theological Seminary was an ecumenical seminary, founded in 1814, in the Congregational tradition of the United Church of Christ. Located in Bangor, Maine, and Portland, Maine, it was the only accredited graduate school of religion in Nor ...

. After traveling through Europe for a year, Heath returned to the United States and worked for

Edwin Ginn Edwin Ginn (February 14, 1838 – January 21, 1914) was an American publisher, peace advocate and philanthropist. Biography Ginn was born in Orland, Maine, on February 14, 1838, into a Universalist farming family who were descendants of early se ...

, a publisher. Together they started a firm called

Ginn & Heath Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, ...

. Heath then sold his interest in the company and founded

in Boston in 1886. He married Nellie Jones Knox on January 6, 1881, and they had four children. He died at his home in Newtonville, Massachusetts on January 29, 1908.

References

*Eliot, Samuel A., ''Biographical History of Massachusetts'', (Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1909)
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