Charles C. (Charles Carroll) Soule

Born in Boston in 1842, Charles Carroll Soule studied at Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard in 1862. During the Civil War he served in the 44th and 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiments, and after the war he built a career in bookselling and publishing.

Soule became especially associated with the book trade in Boston, where he ran a well-known bookshop and wrote on subjects connected to books, libraries, and bibliography. He is remembered as an American "bookman" with a particular interest in library design and practical library questions, while also publishing fiction and other prose.

He died in 1913. Today he is chiefly of interest to readers and historians of publishing, librarianship, and nineteenth-century American literary culture.