{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{short description|American book publisher (1818-1892)}} {{infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = {{nowrap|James Cephas Derby}} | honorific_suffix = | image = James C Derby 1818 1892 engraving by Perine.png | caption = Portrait of J.C. Derby, circa 1884, engraved by G.E. Perine | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=y|1818|7|20}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Little Falls, New York, United States}} | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|1892|9|22|1818|7|20}} | death_place = {{nowrap|Brooklyn, New York City, United States}} | resting_place = | education = | alma_mater = | father = | mother = | spouse = {{marriage|Lavanchie White Fitch|1841}} | children = 8 | occupation = {{nowrap|Book publisher}} | relatives = }}
'''James Cephas Derby''' (1818–1892) was an American book publisher in New York state.
==Biography== James Cephas Derby was born in Little Falls, New York on July 20, 1818.<ref name=Cyclopedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w-4pAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA497 |title=The National Cyclopedia of American Biography |volume=XI |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=497–498 |year=1901 |access-date=2020-08-07 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
He created several business partnerships which issued works by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Henry Ward Beecher, Alice and Phoebe Cary, [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n87-808327 Margaret C. Conkling], Augusta Jane Evans, Fanny Fern, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, [http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-no92-28964 Josiah Hopkins], Solomon Northup, William H. Seward, Mary Virginia Terhune, Catherine Anne Warfield, and others.<ref name=pw1892 /><ref name=appleton1892>{{cite book |title=Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia ... 1892 |volume=17 |year=1893 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York |hdl=2027/mdp.39015053690452 }}</ref> A Republican Party activist, he served under Secretary Seward in the Department of State for the Lincoln administration. He also helped organize the American portion of the 1867 International Exposition in Paris.<ref name=pw1892 /><ref>{{citation |title=Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1867 |year=1870 |location=Washington DC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_Y_AAAAYAAJ }}</ref>
He married Lavanchie White Fitch in 1841, and they had eight children.<ref name=Cyclopedia/>
He died at his daughter's home in Brooklyn on September 22, 1892.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-sep-23-1892-1900468/ |title=Death of James C. Derby |newspaper=Brooklyn Eagle |page=14 |date=1892-09-23 |access-date=2020-08-07 |via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref>
==Publishing firms==
* J.C. Derby & Co., Auburn, New York. Established circa 1844 by Derby and H. Ivison Jr.<ref name=pw1892>{{citation |title=James C. Derby: Obit. |work=Publishers Weekly |date=October 1, 1892 |number=1079 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015033511299 }}</ref> <!-- Note - The placement of the apostrophe behind "Publisher" is correct in this instance, it was named as such in Derby's time --> * Derby & Miller, Auburn, New York, 1848-1852. Established by Derby and Norman C. Miller.<ref name=pw1892 /><ref>{{citation |title=The Literary World |date=January 15, 1853 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj0ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 |location=New York |publisher=Duyckinck }}</ref> * Derby, Miller & Co., Auburn, New York<ref>{{citation |url=https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofmotherw00conk#page/180/mode/2up |title=Derby, Miller & Co. (list of titles) |year=1850 |publisher=Auburn [N.Y.] Derby, Miller, and company }}</ref> * Derby, Orton and Mulligan, Buffalo, New York. Established in 1852 by Derby, William Orton, and Eugene Mulligan.<ref>{{citation |title=Obituary: William Orton |work=Publishers Weekly |date=April 27, 1878 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015019094666 }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Reminiscences of William Orton |work=Publishers Weekly |date=May 4, 1878 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015019094666 }}</ref> * Derby & Jackson, New York City, 1855-1861. Established by Derby and Edwin Jackson.<ref name=pw1892 /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IwtAAAAYAAJ |title=Trow's New York City Directory |year= 1857 |quote=Derby & Jackson, publishers, 119 Nassau }}</ref> * Derby & Miller, New York City. Re-established in 1862 by Derby and Norman C. Miller.<ref name=pw1892 /> Re-established once again in 1890 for the publication of the three volume biography of William H. Seward.
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==Further reading== * {{Citation |publisher = G.W. Carleton & Co. |location = New York |title = Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers |author = J.C. Derby |date = 1884 |ol = 7072799M }} * {{citation |url=http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=2444 |title=The Derby Brothers: 19th Century Bookmen |author=Walter Sutton |year=1948 |work=University of Rochester Library Bulletin |location=New York |publisher=University of Rochester }}
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