The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dodd, Frank Howard
DODD, Frank Howard, American
publisher: b. Bloomfield, N. J., 12 April 1844; d.
New York, 10 Jan. 1916. He prepared at
Bloomfield Academy to enter Yale, but instead
went into the New York publishing house of
his father, M. W. Dodd. To this business he
succeeded in 1870, forming a partnership with
Edward S. Mead. Six years later Bleecker
Van Wagenen joined the firm and the name
was changed to Dodd, Mead & Company.
Beside publishing books in all departments of
literature, the firm, under Mr. F. H. Dodd's

supervision, founded the Bookman in 1895 and
in 1902 the ‘New International Encyclopædia’
which succeeded the ‘International Cyclopædia’
of earlier years. Mr. Dodd was president
of the American Publishers' Association for a
number of years and had various civic and
philanthropic interests, being largely
instrumental, as president of the Fourth Avenue
Association, in the business development of that
street.