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Edwin Ginn (February 14, 1838 – January 21, 1914) was an American publisher, peace advocate, and philanthropist. ==Biography== Ginn was born in Orland, Maine on February 14, 1838, into a Universalist farming family who were descendents of early settlers of Maryland, Virginia, and Salem, Massachusetts.〔 He attended Westbrook Seminary, a Universalist preparatory school; forgoing the ministry, he enrolled instead at Tufts University in 1858.〔 He graduating from Tufts with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1862, receiving his Masters of Arts at the same time.〔 After graduation, Ginn had a successful career selling schoolbooks. In 1868 he founded Ginn & Co., which became a leading textbook American publisher. The company was later known as Ginn and Heath. Ginn married twice, fathering six children.〔 In his late 50s, Ginn turned his focus to philanthropy: the American peace movement was his primary concern. Ginn died on January 21, 1914, at his home in Winchester, Massachusetts, after suffering from a paralytic stroke and pneumonia a month earlier.〔 A library is named after him at Tufts's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Ginn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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