Mahlon Day (August 27, 1790 – September 27, 1854) was an American children's book publisher, printer, and bookseller, based in New York City.

Biography

Mahlon Day was born on August 27, 1790, in

Morristown, New Jersey Morristown () is a Town (New Jersey), town in and the county seat of Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

. Day, his wife and two daughters died on September 27, 1854, when the '' SS Arctic'' collided with the French steamship ''

SS Vesta SS ''Vesta'' was a propeller-driven fishing vessel 250 gross tons, built in 1853 at Nantes, France, by Hernoux et Cie of Dieppe for the Société Terreneuvienne of Granville in Normandy. The company had extensive fishing interests in the Grand ...

'' off the coast of Canada in thick fog, and only 22 out of 233 passengers survived, none of them women or children.

Descendants

Through his daughter Sarah, he was a grandfather, and namesake, of merchant Mahlon Day Sands.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Day, Mahlon 1790 births 1854 deaths 19th-century American publishers (people) American booksellers American printers People from Morristown, New Jersey Deaths due to shipwreck at sea