Charles H. Kerr
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Born | Charles Hope Kerr April 23, 1860 LaGrange, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | June 1, 1944 | (aged 84)
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Publisher, editor, writer |
Known for | Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company |
Charles Hope Kerr (April 23, 1860 – June 1, 1944),[1] was an American publisher, editor and writer. A son of abolitionists, he was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H. Kerr & Co. in Chicago. His publishing career is noted for his views' leftward progression toward socialism and support for the Industrial Workers of the World.
Biography
Early life
Charles Hope Kerr was born in LaGrange, Georgia, on April 23, 1860, the son of Alexander Kerr, a Scotsman who immigrated to the United States.[2]
Career
Kerr started his career at a Unitarian publisher and joined the staff of the Unity magazine in the mid-1880s. To support the magazine, he eventually established his own publishing house Charles H. Kerr & Co. in 1893. Influenced by the US People's Party, Kerr began to publish more political works on topics like land reform, including a new monthly magazine New Occasions.
In January 1900,
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Kerr was noted for his translation from the French of the radical workers' anthem, "The Internationale;" his version became the English words sung in the United States (although a different, anonymous English translation is sung in Britain and Ireland).[citation needed] Kerr's version was widely circulated in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World.[citation needed]
Kerr was active in partisan politics as well. He was on the National Campaign Committee of the
Vegetarianism
Kerr was a vegetarian and his company published J. Howard Moore's The Universal Kinship.[5][6]
Works
Articles:
- "What Socialism Is," International Socialist Review, (1917)[7]
Compilations:
- Unity songs resung (1884)[8]
Translations:
- The right to be lazy, and other studies (1907)[9]
References
- ^ Charles H. Kerr & Co., Encyclopedia of Chicago
- ISBN 978-1-60486-572-1.
- ISBN 9781604864267.
- ]
- ISBN 9780824047818
- ISBN 978-0875730301
- ^ Kerr, Charles H. (October 1917). "What Socialism Is". International Socialist Review: 197–200.
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Charles H. Kerr, ed. (1885). Unity songs resung. Colegrove book company. LCCN 34040195.
- ^
LCCN 07023081.
Bibliography
- The International Socialist Review (ISR), 1900
- The Militant Proletariat
- Tim Dayton, "Red Ink: The Charles H. Kerr Story"
- H.L. Green, "Charles H. Kerr," The Free Thought Magazine [Chicago], vol. 14, no. 1 (Jan. 1896), pp. 1, 48-50.
External links
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- Works by or about Charles H. Kerr at Internet Archive
- Tim Davenport (ed.), "Publications by Charles H. Kerr & Co. (1885-1940s): Listed Alphabetically by Author," Corvallis, OR: Early American Marxism website, 2014.
- Charles H. Kerr Company Records at the Newberry Library
- Charles H. Kerr at Library of Congress, with 13 library catalog records (previous page of browse report as 'Kerr, Charles H., 1860–' without '1944')
- Charles H. Kerr Company at LC Authorities, 5 records, and at WorldCat
- May Walden Papers at the Newberry