George Durston

The Saalfield Publishing Company of Akron, Ohio published children's books and other products from 1900 to 1977. It was once one of the largest publishers of children's materials in the world. The company was founded in 1900 in Akron, Ohio, by Arthur J. Saalfield who had come to take charge of the Werner Company's publishing department. During its flourishing, the company published the works of authors including Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, Daniel Defoe, Laura Lee Hope, Herman Melville, Dr. Seuss, Anna Sewell, Shirley Temple, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Johann Rudolf Wyss, Ohio author, columnist, poet, and humorist James Ball Naylor, and Robert Sidney Bowen. Colonel George Durston was a commonly used house name for ghost writers working with this publisher. Saalfield published the New Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica in 1903, and was sued for copyright violation.