Eliakim Littell (1797–1870)

American publisher, born in Burlington, NJ, on the 2nd of January 1797. Having learned the printer’s trade, he established at Philadelphia, in 1819, a literary paper entitled the National Recorder, changing the name in 1821 to the Saturday Magazine. In 1822 it became a monthly, called the Museum of Foreign Literature and Science. It presented to American readers selections from the best periodical literature of Europe. After conducting this successfully for twenty-one years, he began to publish, in 1844, in Boston, Littell’s Living Age, a weekly literary periodical of high character and taste. He died in Boston on the 17th of May 1870.