Daniel Collamore Heath (1843–1908) was the founder ofD. C. Heath and Company, part ofHoughton Mifflin.

Daniel C. Heath was born inSalem, Maine on October 26, 1843.^[1][2] He studied atNichols Latin School andBates College (then called the Maine State Seminary) before graduating fromAmherst College in 1868. Heath worked as a high school principal for two years before briefly attendingBangor Theological Seminary. After traveling through Europe for a year, Heath returned to the United States and worked forEdwin Ginn, a publisher. Together they started a firm calledGinn & Heath. Heath then sold his interest in the company and foundedD. C. Heath and Company in Boston in 1886.^[1][2]

He married Nellie Jones Knox on January 6, 1881, and they had four children.^[2]

He died at his home inNewtonville, Massachusetts on January 29, 1908.^[2]

• Eliot, Samuel A.,Biographical History of Massachusetts, (Massachusetts Biographical Society, 1909),23-27

• 1843 births
• 1908 deaths
• Bates College alumni
• Amherst College alumni
• People from Franklin County, Maine
• American publishers (people)
• Bangor Theological Seminary alumni
• 19th-century American businesspeople

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