author
Willis P. (Willis Pope) Hazard
1825–1913
A busy 19th-century Philadelphia publisher and writer, he worked across an unusually wide range of subjects, from travel guides and humorous history to practical books on cattle and dairying. His name is tied to both original works and reprints that helped circulate American reading in an era of fast-growing print culture.
1 Audiobook
How to Select Cows or, The Guenon system simplified, explained, and practically applied
by Willis P. (Willis Pope) Hazard
About the author
Born in 1825, Willis Pope Hazard was an American publisher, bookseller, and author based in Philadelphia. Records of his work show a remarkably broad output, including travel handbooks, juvenile and popular reading, humorous history, family history, and agricultural books.
Trade-history sources describe him as entering the book business at a young age and later operating his own Philadelphia publishing and bookselling firm. Bibliographic records connect his name with works such as The American Guide Book, Comic History of the United States—issued under the pseudonym Herod Otis—and practical livestock titles including The Jersey, Alderney, and Guernsey Cow and How to Select Cows.
That range makes him an interesting figure for audiobook listeners today: not just a single-purpose author, but a representative of the energetic 19th-century book world, when publishers often edited, compiled, repackaged, and wrote books themselves. He died in 1913.