Crowell-Collier Company

Farm and Fireside Block, located on the northwest corner of High and Factory streets (now High Street and Wittenberg Avenue) in Springfield, Ohio.

John Crowell, a printer from Louisville, Kentucky, came to Springfield, Ohio in 1878 to edit Farm and Fireside magazine. The original idea was to use magazines to sell farm machinery. By 1902 the Crowell Company was publishing a number of magazines. Over the next several years, the Crowell-Collier Company began publishing many different magazines, including Woman's Home Companion, American Weekly, and Collier's Weekly.

At its peak, the Crowell-Collier Company employed several thousand workers. It was one of the largest publishing firms in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, the company also began publishing books. Between 1900 and 1910, the firm sold more than thirty million books. In the twentieth century, the company began to publish encyclopedias and yearbooks.

In 1960, The Crowell-Collier Company was acquired by the Macmillan Company. [[Category:{$topic}]]