Herbert Myrick
Herbert Myrick (1860–1927)[1] was an American editor, author, and publisher.[2][3] He served as president and editor-in-chief of the Phelps Publishing Company.[4] He wrote books on various agricultural and business subjects including the commercial cultivation of corn, hops, sugar, federal loans available for agriculture, turkeys, and tobacco.[5] He served as secretary of the Farmers League.[6][7] He founded the Farmers' Political League in 1901.[1]
Phelps Publishing Company printed various publications. It burned in 1907.[8] He died in Germany at a bath resort he traveled to for improved health.[1] His estate was left to his wife.[9]
His family's former home in Springfield, Massachusetts is part of the McKnight Historic District that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]
Writings
[edit]- "Creating New Industries" (1901)[3]
- Cache La Poudre - The Romance of a Tenderfoot in the Days of Custer (1905) illustrated by Edward Deming (Edwin Deming?)
- "The Real Meaning of Prosperity" (1905)[10]
- "The American Sugar Industry"[11]
- Tobacco Leaf, Its Culture and Cure, Marketing and Manufacture: A Practical Handbook On the Most Approved Methods in Growing, Harvesting, Curing, ... Selling (1923)
- The Hop - Its Culture and Cure Marketing and Manufacture
- A Swim For Life, pseudonym Uncle Ted?
- Turkey and How to Grow Them
- "Rural Credits System for the United States"
- The Book of Corn
- A Revolution in Agriculture
- Sugar: a new and profitable industry in the United States for capital, agriculture and labor to supply the home market yearly with $100,000,000 of its product[12]
- The American Sugar Industry (1915)[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "HERBERT MYRICK, 66, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Backed Agricultural Periodicals and Founded Farmers' Political League in 1901". The New York Times. 7 July 1927.
- ^ "Herbert Myrick". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ a b "Herbert Myrick | Creating New Industries." 1901.
- ^ a b "Herbert Myrick House, Springfield, Mass - Lost New England". Lost New England. 24 May 2017.
- ^ "Myrick, Herbert 1860-1927 [WorldCat Identities]". worldcat.org.
- ^ Ashby, N. B. (November 25, 1890). "The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, Land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange: a Consideration of Possible Remedies for Existing Inequalities, and an Outline of the Position of Agriculture in the Industrial World; with a Comprehensive History of the Leading Farm Organizations, Their Constitutions and By-laws". Industrial Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Allen, Emory Adams (November 25, 1891). "Labor and Capital: Containing an Account of the Various Organizations of Farmers, Planters, and Mechanics, for Mutual Improvement and Protection Against Monopoly". Central publishing house – via Google Books.
- ^ "PUBLISHING PLANT BURNS.; $1,000,000 Property of Phelps Company, Owners of Periodicals, Destroyed". The New York Times. 29 January 1907.
- ^ "Widow Gets Myrick's Estate". The New York Times. 29 July 1927.
- ^ "The real meaning of prosperity. By Herbert Myrick. 1909. [Edition from "Farm and Home." Chicago and Springfield, Mass.: Phelps Publishing Co.]". Library of Congress.
- ^ "The American sugar industry". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Myrick, Herbert, - Biodiversity Heritage Library". www.biodiversitylibrary.org.
- ^ Myrick, Herbert (July 12, 1915). "The American sugar industry;". New York, Springfield, Mass. [etc.] Orange Judd comapny – via Internet Archive.
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