Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) Hoskin

Arthur J. Hoskin, also listed as Arthur Joseph Hoskin, was born in 1869 and is known today for The Business of Mining, a plainspoken guide to how mines were run and evaluated. The book was published in the early 1900s and presented mining in business terms for general readers rather than specialists.

Catalog and library records also connect him with The Leyden Coal Mine, suggesting a professional interest in mining operations beyond a single book. In the material available online, he appears less as a literary figure than as a technical writer and mining professional who wanted readers to think clearly about risk, management, and the economics behind extraction.

Reliable biographical detail on his personal life is limited in the sources I could confirm during this search, so it is safest to remember him chiefly through his practical writing and his contribution to early popular explanations of the mining industry.