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William S. Damrell	The publishing firm of Ford and Damrell was founded in Boston in 1833 by John Ford and William S. Damrell. In 1835 the partners separated and Damrell ran his own firm. From 1837 to 1848 the firm traded as Whipple and Damrell, before reverting to William S. Damrell and occasionally Damrell and Moore. The firm went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 113.	2009
William Sinclair	William Sinclair founded his printing firm in Otley, Yorkshire in 1837. The firm adopted the trading name of Silvine, which was registered in 1901. See www.silvine.com.	2007
William Sloane Associates	The publishing firm of William Sloane Associates was founded in New York in 1946. In 1952 the firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 347-349, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
William Wood and Company	Samuel Wood founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1804. The firm was subsequently managed by his sons and grandsons, becoming Samuel Wood and Sons and then Samuel S. and William Wood, before the name of William Wood and Company was adopted in 1863. In 1932 William Wood and Company was purchased by Williams and Wilkins of Baltimore. Williams and Wilkins is now part of the Lippincott Williams and Wilkins division of Wolters Kluwer Health. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 497-498 and see www.lww.com.	2009
World Publishing Company	World Publishing Company had its origins in 1929 when Alfred Cahen bought World Syndicate Company and merged it with his own Commercial Bookbinding Company. The firm was first called World Syndicate Publishing Company and changed its name to World Publishing Company in 1940. The firm had two main publishing interests: Bibles and religious books and nonfiction reprints. In 1963 the firm was acquired by Times-Mirror and its name was gradually phased out of existence within Times-Mirror during the 1970s. In 1974 the firm's Bible and religious publishing interests were acquired by William Collins. See the FOB entries for Times-Mirror and for William Collins for information about current ownerships.	2008
Young, Stewart and M'Culloch	The printing and publishing firm of Young, Stewart and M'Culloch was founded in Philadelphia in 1785 by William Young, Peter Stewart and John M'Culloch. Stewart left the firm in 1786 and it became Young and M'Culloch. The firm later traded as William Young (1787-1797); Young, Mills and Son (1797-1798); and William Young, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer: Whitehall Press, before it went out of business around 1805. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 501.	2009

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