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Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

"A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After"


1876: August 7: Entered employ of the Western Union Telegraph
Company as office-boy.
1882: Entered employ of Henry Holt & Company as stenographer.
1884: Entered employ of Charles Scribner's Sons as stenographer.
1884: Became editor of _The Brooklyn Magazine_.
1886: Founded the Bok Syndicate Press.
1887: Published Henry Ward Beecher Memorial (privately printed).
1889: October 20: Became editor of _The Ladies' Home Journal_.
1890: Published _Successward_: Doubleday, McClure & Company.
1894: Published _Before He Is Twenty_: Fleming H. Revell Company.
1896: October 22: Married Mary Louise Curtis.
1897: September 7: Son born; William Curtis Bok.
1900: Published _The Young Man in Business_: L. G. Page & Company.
1905: January 25: Son born: Cary William Bok.
1906: Published _Her Brother's Letters_ (Anonymous): Moffat,
Yard & Company.
1907: Degree of LL.D. of Order of Augustinian Fathers conferred
by order of Pope Pius X., by the Most Reverend Diomede
Falconio, D.


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