Mahlon Day

This article is about an American publisher. For an American mathematician, see Mahlon Marsh Day.

Mahlon Day (August 27, 1790 – September 27, 1854) was an American children's book publisher, printer, and bookseller, based in New York City.

Biography

Mahlon Day was born on August 27, 1790, in Morristown, New Jersey.^[1]

Day, his wife and two daughters died on September 27, 1854, when the SS Arctic collided with the French steamship SS Vesta off the coast of Canada in thick fog, and only 22 out of 233 passengers survived, none of them women or children.^[1]

Descendants

Through his daughter Sarah, he was a grandfather, and namesake, of merchant Mahlon Day Sands.^[2]

References

1. "A Printer's Account of the Caribbean: Mahlon Day's Diary". New-York Historical Society. July 15, 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
2. Descendants of James Sands of Block Island: With Notes on the Walker, Hutchinson, Ray, Guthrie, Palgrave, Cornell, Ayscough, Middagh, Holt, and Henshaw Families. Privately printed. 1949. p. 49. Retrieved 12 February 2022.