Statistics for occurrence #1 of “J. B. Ford” in chapter 1 of Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903:

...literature, history, and the classics, but left in the middle of his junior year to enter the publishing house of D. Appleton & Co. as a salesman. We next find him in the publishing houses of J. B. Ford & Co. and Sheldon & Co. In the fall of 1876 he took charge of the English educational and subscription department of the German publishing house of E. Steiger & Co., remaining there until...
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