Charles Pinckney Byrd (c. 1857 – November 1935)[1] was a printing company proprietor in Atlanta, Georgia.[2] He established his printing company in 1897.[3] The business was a partnership for a time known as Byrd & Pattillo.[4][2] Byrd incorporated Byrd Publishing Company and later, seeking to do textbook business, reincorporated as Byrd Printing Company.[5]
He was a native of Cuthbert, Georgia.[1] He married twice, first to Pearl Bryan in 1880 whom he divorced in 1894, then to Cora Lyon in 1896.[2][6] He lived at 109 East North Avenue.[2]
History
editC. P. Byrd operated the Byrd Publishing Company in Atlanta, Georgia. From about 1909 - 1915, C. P. Byrd was State Printer.[7][8] In 1927, The Byrd Publishing Company, C. P. Byrd president, advertised school and college textbooks and "literary productions of all kinds" on its letterhead. Its office was at 506-507 Norris Building.[9] It was on Peachtree Street.[10]
Byrd published proceedings from encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic.[11]
In 1916 Byrd sued for an injunction against another printing company that was awarded the state printing job. He alleged that state officials were stockholders and that the company did not meet the criteria for state printer.[12]
Byrd married Pearl Bryan, daughter of Mary E. Bryan, in 1880. Mary stayed with him and launched The Old Homestead publication until she became afflicted with typhoid and moved to Florida for relief. He took over the publication while she pledged to continue as a writer for it. Charles and Pearl divorced in 1894.[6]
He was on the Executive Committee of the Georgia Printers' Association.[13] He served as president when it was known as Typothetae.[14]
He purchased several presses.[15] For $250,000, he acquired property at Peachtree and Kimball streets for a 10-story hotel.[16]
Publications
edit- The Colonial Records of Georgia compiled by Allen D. Candler[17]
- Black Heels on White Necks or A Fight for Supremacy, a text deriding Social Equality, castigating "Republican Supremacy", and pronouncing white supremacy. It defends lynching, calls out northern hypocrisy, calls out "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers" and defends Southern institutions including slavery. It was written anonymously by an author who identifies herself as female. The tome recounts outrages such as a white female postal employee being introduced to a "negro" hire. The signature of Ephie Augustus Williams appears in a copy of the book.[18] He was a black Knight of Pythias leader.
- Byrd published the 26 volume Colonial Records of the State of Georgia.[19]
- Scraps of song and southern scenes; a collection of humorous and pathetic poems and descriptive sketches of plantation life in the backwoods of Georgia by Montgomery M. Folsom (1889)[20][21]
- A reverie of the early dawn by Elizabeth Fry (1893)[22]
- Life in Dixie During the War by Mary Ann Harris Gay (1897)[23]
- The Confederate Records of the State of Georgia (1909)[24]
- Savannah Line steamship brochure (12 pages)
- Journal of the House of Representatives (1911)[25]
- Second Report on the Roads of Georgia"s Geological Survey of Georgia[26]
References
edit- ^ a b "Charles P. Byrd, Publisher, Dies". The Atlanta Constitution. 1935-11-06. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
- ^ a b c d Howell, Clark (1926). History of Georgia. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company. pp. 276–277. ISBN 978-0-598-46489-7.
- ^ "The American Stationer". Howard Lockwood. December 14, 1897 – via Google Books.
- ^ Appeals, United States Board of Tax (December 14, 1930). "Reports of the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "Bookbinding & Book Production". 1927.
- ^ a b Jr, Canter Brown; Rivers, Larry Eugene (October 28, 2015). Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813055565 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Confederate records of the state of Georgia, by Allen D. Candler et al. | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ Office, Georgia Comptroller General's (December 14, 1914). "Annual Report of the Comptroller-General and Insurance Commissioner, State of Georgia for the Fiscal Years ..." The Office – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Byrd Publishing Co., [C.P. Byrd, President], 1927 (Atlanta, Georgia) [ANS correspondence, ca. 1908-1931]" – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Craig, Robert Michael (December 14, 2012). The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-architect. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820328980 – via Google Books.
- ^ Sarris, Jonathan Dean (October 5, 2012). A Separate Civil War: Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 9780813934211 – via Google Books.
- ^ Office, Georgia Attorney-General's (December 14, 1917). "Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the State of Georgia". Franklin Printing and Publishing Company – via Google Books.
- ^ "Bulletin". United Typothetae and Franklin Clubs of America. December 14, 1914 – via Google Books.
- ^ "American Printer and Bookmaker: Jan.-Feb. 1900". Moore Publishing Company. December 14, 1916 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Southeastern Reporter". 1895.
- ^ "Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record". Publications Division, Conway Research, Incorporated. December 14, 1920 – via Google Books.
- ^ Clarke, William Bordley (1924). "Early and Historic Freemasonry of Georgia, 1733/4-1800".
- ^ Williams, Ephie Augustus (December 14, 1889). "Black Heels on White Necks; Or A Fight for Supremacy". C.P. Byrd, Printer – via Google Books.
- ^ Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. U of Nebraska Press. July 1, 2007. ISBN 978-0803233836 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Scraps of song and southern scenes; a collection of humorous and pathetic poems and descriptive sketches of plantation life in the backwoods of Georgia". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ Alderman, Edwin Anderson; Harris, Joel Chandler; Kent, Charles William (December 14, 1910). "Library of Southern Literature: Biographical dictionary of authors". Martin & Hoyt Company – via Google Books.
- ^ "A reverie of the early dawn" (PDF).
- ^ "Life in Dixie during the war. 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865" (PDF).
- ^ "The Confederate records of the State of Georgia, 2". Digital Library of Georgia.
- ^ Brock, Julia; Vivian, Daniel (October 1, 2015). Leisure, Plantations, and the Making of a New South: The Sporting Plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry and Red Hills Region, 1900–1940. Lexington Books. ISBN 9780739195796 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ingram, Tammy (March 3, 2014). Dixie Highway: Road Building and the Making of the Modern South, 1900-1930. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469612997 – via Google Books.