John Denison Champlin, Jr.

John Denison Champlin Jr. (January 29, 1834 – January 8, 1915 ) was a nonfiction writer and editor from the United States. As an editor, he worked in journalism and graphic arts.

Biography He was born in Stonington, Connecticut, the son of a father of the same name and mother Sylvia (Bostwick) Champlin. His father had worked on the construction of railroads in the western United States during their early history. Champlin was educated at the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven, and at Yale University, where he graduated in 1856. In the following year, he began the study of law in the office of Gideon H. Hollister (also a Yale graduate) in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in Litchfield in April 1859.

In 1884 he visited Europe, and accompanied Andrew Carnegie in a trip by coach through southern England. He later became editor of Scribner's art cyclopædias.

Champlin died at his home in New York City January 8, 1915, and his remains were interred in Litchfield.

Works Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things (New York, 1879) Young Folks' Catechism of Common Things (1880) Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places (1880) Young Folks' Astronomy (1881) Young Folks' History of the War for the Union (1881) Chronicle of the Coach, describes his travels with Carnegie (New York, 1886) Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings, with Charles Callahan Perkins (1886–1887) v. 3 at Internet Archive v. 4 at Google Books Cyclopædia of Music and Musicians (editor, with William F. Apthorp, 1888–90) Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Games and Sports, with Arthur E. Bostwick (1890) The Standard Dictionary (editor, 1892–94) Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Literature and Art (1901) Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Natural History (1905) Orations, Addresses, and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew (1910) The Tragedy of Anne Hutchinson (1911) In 1893, he was selected, along with Rossiter Johnson and George Cary Eggleston, to edit Liber Scriptorum, a volume with contributions from over 100 members of the Authors Club.