American publisher, born in New York City on the 21st of February 1821; graduated at Princeton in 1840, and in 1846 joined in founding the publishing firm of Baker and Scribner. His partner died soon after, and the firm became Charles Scribner and Company. Hours at Home, first issued in 1865, in 1870 was merged in Scribner’s Magazine, which was sold by the firm in 1881 and re-christened the Century Magazine. Charles Scribner died in Lucerne, Switzerland, on the 26th of August 1871, and the firm in 1879 became Charles Scribner’s Sons, and they in 1887 began a new Scribner’s Magazine.
