PUTNAM, GEonoE PALMER (1814-72). A grandnephew of Israel Putnam, and a New York publisher. lie was born in Brunswick, Sic., Feb ruary 7, 1814. At fourteen he entered the bookstore of 1). and Leavitt, New York. In 1840 he became partner in the house of Wiley & Putnam, of which he established a London branch in 1841. In 1848 he returned to New York and founded the publishing house winch later beeame the firm of G. P. Putnam's Sons. Bookmaking interested Ililll as an art from the beginning. In 1852, with the aid of George William Curtis, he established Putuanes Maga zine (discontinued in 1857. revived 1800-70). In 1861 he organized the Loyal Publication Society, suspended his business for three years (1863-06) to become United States Collector of Internal Revenue, and then refounded his publishing house in conjunction with his sons, Oeorge Haven and John Bishop. Ile was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was made honorary superintendent in 1872. Ile was also Chairman of the Committee on Art at the Vienna Universal Exposition. lie died in New York City December 20, 1872. Putnam was thi
author, among other works, of: Chronu/ogy, or an Introduction and Index to Universal History, Biography, and Useful Knowledge (1833) ; inmer icau Bool,• CirriPar with Notes and Statistics (1543); American. Facts, Notes and Statistics Relative to the gorernment of the United States (1845) ; The World's Progress—a Dictionary of Dates (1850). and a supplement to this work (1861). His son, G EORI,E HAVEN 1844—), was born in London and was educated in New York City, at the Sorbonne, and in (Ilittingen. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and rose to the rank of brevet major. Like ids father, he took an ardent interest in copyright law, becoming secretary of the American Pub Copyright League in 1SS7. His publica tions include: Authors and Publishers (1882, with J. Bishop Putnam) ; Question of Copyright (1891) ; The Artifirial Mother (1894) ; and Books and Their Makers in the Middle A !KS (1596). To Mason and Lalor's Political Racyelopredia he contributed a valuable paper on "Literary