Johnson. A Successful Business Life: Memorials of Charles Stoddard

Johnson, Mary Stoddard. A Successful Business Life: Memorials of Charles Stoddard. Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, (1884). [9294] Green publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & black, light soil, joints fine, 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Steel-engraved portrait, dampstained, with tissue guard. 525 pp., several illustrations, tight. The page closed page edges have a few stains and infrequently affect a thin portion of some page margins. No stains in the text. Good. Hardcover. At the time of this entry there are no other original copies for sale online.A sympathetic memorial written by Stoddard's daughter, containing much of his own writing in the form of letters.Charles Stoddard (1802-1873), b. Northampton, MA; d. Boston, MA. A Boston merchant of marked industry and piety, Stoddard was an active Christian in Sunday School teaching and a supporter of the A. B. C. F. M. He was a trustee of Williams College, and with Williams President Mark Hopkins and Prof. Albert H