# Eliakim Littell

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American editor & publisher (1797–1870)

*The Museum* v.1, 1822

**Eliakim Littell** (2 January 1797 – 17 May 1870) was an American editor and publisher, the founder of a long-lived periodical named *Littell's Living Age* (1844–1941).

## Biography

Littell was born in [Burlington, New Jersey](/source/Burlington%2C_New_Jersey). He moved to [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), in 1819, and established a weekly literary paper entitled the *National Recorder*, whose name he changed in 1821 to the *Saturday Magazine*. In July 1822, he again changed it to a monthly called the *Museum of Foreign Literature and Science*, which was edited during the first year by [Robert Walsh](/source/Robert_Walsh_(diplomat)), and subsequently by himself and his brother Squier (born in Burlington, New Jersey, 9 December 1803; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 July 1886). After conducting this with great success for nearly 22 years, Littell moved to [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts).

In Boston, in April 1844, he began *Littell's Living Age*, a weekly literary periodical, published from an office at the corner of Bromfield and Tremont Streets.[1] In 1855, he began the publication in Boston of the *Panorama of Life and Literature*, a monthly. Littell was the author of the "[Compromise Tariff](/source/Tariff_of_1833)", which was advocated by [Henry Clay](/source/Henry_Clay) and carried through the [U.S. Congress](/source/U.S._Congress) during the administration of [President Jackson](/source/Andrew_Jackson). Littell died in [Brookline](/source/Brookline%2C_Massachusetts), Massachusetts.

## Family

His brother Squier Littell was a [physician](/source/Physician) who eventually became surgeon to the Wills Ophthalmic Hospital of Philadelphia 1834–1864. His brother John Stockton Littell (born in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1806; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 July 1875) was an author who published a sketch of the *Life, Character, and Services of Henry Clay* and other pieces. Eliakim Littell's grandfather of the same name was a captain in the [American Revolution](/source/American_Revolution), and did good service in the defence of [Springfield, New Jersey](/source/Springfield_Township%2C_Union_County%2C_New_Jersey), 4 June 1780. The brothers' cousin William Littell (born in New Jersey about 1780; died in [Frankfort, Kentucky](/source/Frankfort%2C_Kentucky), in 1825) was a lawyer, a member of the Kentucky bar, who for many years reported the decisions of the [court of appeals](/source/Court_of_Appeals) of Kentucky. In addition to his legal publications, he wrote *Festoons of Fancy in Essays, Humorous, Sentimental, and Political, in Prose and Verse*.

## Works

English [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original text related to this article:

**[Littell's Living Age](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Littell%27s_Living_Age)**

Wikiquote has quotations related to ***[Eliakim Littell](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/Eliakim_Littell)***.

- *The Museum of Foreign Literature and Science*. [v.1](https://books.google.com/books?id=1dwXAQAAIAAJ) (1822).[2]

- *Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art*. [v.2](https://books.google.com/books?id=aVUCAAAAIAAJ) (1843).

- *Living Age*. [v.60](https://books.google.com/books?id=GdJhNfee4skC) (1859); [v.99](https://books.google.com/books?id=0yM9mWA5oLkC) (1868). Full run available online from Library of Congress, [v.1-59, 61-227](http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/title/livn.html) (1844–1900)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *Boston Directory*, 1852.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-loc.gov_2-0)** ["Eliakim Littell correspondence"](https://www.loc.gov/item/mm2006085318/). *Library of Congress*. Retrieved 4 February 2020.

## References

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Wilson, J. G.](/source/James_Grant_Wilson); [Fiske, J.](/source/John_Fiske_(philosopher)), eds. (1892). ["Littell, Eliakim"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Appletons%27_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography/Littell,_Eliakim). *[Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography](/source/Appletons'_Cyclop%C3%A6dia_of_American_Biography)*. New York: D. Appleton.

## Images

		- Living Age office, Bromfield St., Boston, 1853

		- *Littell's Living Age*, 1868

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