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Not fair. You severely chastized me last year for using Wiley Post. You were miffed because you thought it was Richie Valens.
Hmmm, apparently you were not chastised sufficiently.
I was born in Minnesota and moved to Illinois when I was 19. I was arrested three times there before the age of 20. I came into my own running an illegal business which would not be illegal today. My competitors decided to try and put me out of business permanently, famously eliminating a number of my employees, but not me.
I continued to enjoy a 17 year run of profit making before finally being jailed for a relatively small and simple crime. I spent the majority of my remaining nine years incarcerated. Once one of the wealthiest men in the nation, I had a net worth of about 100 dollars when I died.
I was a lawyer in Kentucky, but I worked part-time for the local newspaper, and gradually shifted all my attention to a field associated with that. I then formed a company that bore my name, which was the leader in the industry. My name appeared frequently in so many school books in the middle of the 20th century, that it should have become a household word, but few students paid enough attention to their books to notice it. I had little expertise in the field for which I am best known, and everything I was responsible for was done by skilled professionals who remain anonymous to this day. In spite of the ubiquity of my name a half century ago, and my company's dominance in my field, you will get no hits if you search Wikipedia for my name.
I have ruled out the (4) founding members of Houghton Mifflin Publishers as they were all New Englanders. That's the prominent name I remember in the front of text books.
I have ruled out the (4) founding members of Houghton Mifflin Publishers as they were all New Englanders. That's the prominent name I remember in the front of text books.
My name would be found in fine print, throughout the interior pages.
Did the company founded by this person have something to do with the paper the textbooks were printed on? Was this person famous for something to do with paper manufacturing? I wasn't alive in the 1950s so I don't know what might have been printed in textbooks of that era.
Did the company founded by this person have something to do with the paper the textbooks were printed on? Was this person famous for something to do with paper manufacturing? I wasn't alive in the 1950s so I don't know what might have been printed in textbooks of that era.
No, not related to that. My chief competitor was a company called Keystone.
For a person whose work was so widespread and publicly visible, always with my name attached, it is really astonishing to me that I have slipped so far below the radar. Here is a visual clue.
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