Albert Dick
Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century. He coined the word "mimeograph".

Dick attended school in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883.  It was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies.

Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. He died at his home there on August 15, 1934.

References

Further reading
 Buck, Glen. Fifty Years 1884-1834, A. B. Dick Company. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling.)

External links

 Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company
 

1856 births
1934 deaths
American manufacturing businesspeople
Burials at Rosehill Cemetery
People from Galesburg, Illinois

19th-century American businesspeople