__NOTOC__ Sampson R. Urbino (1818–1896), also known as S.R. Urbino, was a book dealer, publisher, and library owner in

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, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He focused on books in languages other than English. Prior to bookselling, Urbino worked as a teacher in Boston. In the mid-1850s he bought "Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody's circulating library and book-store on West Street. He developed the library and also added German, French, and books in other foreign languages to his stock. He then ... began publishing the well-known series of Ahn's and Ollendorf's readers and grammars, and other text-books." The business operated from an office on Summer Street (ca.1856) Winter Street (ca.1857-1861)

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(ca.1864-1865) and Bromfield Street (ca.1870). Urbino sold part of his textbook enterprise "to Henry Holt & Co. shortly before retiring from business in 1865. He sold his business to De Vries, Ibarra & Co., to whom he also transferred the services of Mr. Carl Schoenhof and Miss Fanny Moeller." He supported the

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; the

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during the Civil War; and the National Liberal League. He belonged to the

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. In 1889 "S.R. Urbino and 30 others" presented a petition to the Massachusetts House of Representatives asking for "legislation providing that one-third of the members of school committees in cities and towns shall be women." Urbino lived in Roxbury and

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, and was married to

Levina Buoncuore Urbino __NOTOC__ Levina Buoncuore Urbino or Lavinia Buoncuore Urbino (died 1888) was an American writer and translator who lived in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 19th century. Among her published works was ''An American Woman in Europe'' (1869), ...

, a writer and translator.Directory of the town of Newton. 1871

Published by S.R. Urbino

* L. Boncoeur .e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino L'instructeur de l'enfrance: (A first book for children), 2nd ed. 1864 * Goethe. Faust, Eine Tragoedie von Goethe: Erster Theil. With English notes. 1864. * Goethe, E.C.F. Krauss. Iphigenie auf Tauris. With English notes. 1865. * Goethe, E.C.F. Krauss. Hermann und Dorothea. With English notes. 1866. * Explanatory text to S.R. Urbino's charts of the animal kingdom. 1869. "Revised and corrected by Samuel Kneeland
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* L.B. Cuore .e. Levina Buoncuore Urbino Italian conversation-grammar, 5th ed. 187
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* Emil Otto. German conversation-grammar, 21st ed. 1870. * M. Lamé Fleury; translated by Susan M. Lane. Ancient history told to children. 187
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* Eugénie Foa. Le petit Robinson de Paris, 4th ed. 1870

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Urbino, Sampson R 1818 births 1896 deaths Businesspeople from Boston American publishers (people) 19th-century American businesspeople

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Published by S.R. Urbino

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