author
William Edmond Pulsifer
b. 1852
Best known for writing about American educational publishing, this Maine-born author spent decades inside the textbook world before turning his experience into clear, practical history. He also compiled family history, bringing the same orderly, factual style to genealogy.
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A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United States
by William Edmond Pulsifer
About the author
Born in West Sumner, Maine, on April 16, 1852, William Edmond Pulsifer built a career that linked education, publishing, and historical writing. Sources describing his life connect him with work in educational publishing and with later recognition from Bates College, which awarded him honorary degrees.
Pulsifer is remembered today chiefly for A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United States, a concise historical study drawn from long firsthand experience in the field. Project Gutenberg lists his works, and other records show that he also compiled Ancestry and Descendants of Jonathan Pulsifer and His Wife Nancy Ryerson Pulsifer of Poland and Sumner, Maine, reflecting a strong interest in family and local history.
He died in 1931. Even in short works, his writing suggests a practical mind: patient with facts, interested in how institutions grow, and keen to preserve the stories behind them.