The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Putnam, George Haven

PUTNAM, George Haven, American publisher and author, son of G. P. Putnam (q.v.): b. London, England, 2 April 1844. He was educated in New York, Paris and Göttingen, leaving the university at the latter place to enter the Union army as a volunteer in 1862. He served through the war, was a prisoner at Libby in the winter of 1864-65, and attained rank as major of volunteers. He is head of the firm G. P. Putnam's Sons, was a leader in reorganizing the American Copyright League in 1887 and was instrumental in securing the passage of the copyright bill in 1891. He has published &lsquo;Authors and Publishers&rsquo; (1883); &lsquo;The Artificial Mother&rsquo; (1894); &lsquo;Books and their Makers in the Middle Ages&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;The Censorship of the Church&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;Abraham Lincoln&rsquo; (1909); &lsquo;Memories of a Publisher&rsquo; (1915).