Eliakim Littell
Eliakim Littell was an American editor and publisher, the founder of a long-lived periodical named Littell's Living Age.
Biography
Littell was born in Burlington, New Jersey. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1819, and established a weekly literary paper entitled the National Recorder, whose name he changed in 1821 to the Saturday Magazine.In July 1822, he again changed it to a monthly called the Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, which was edited during the first year by Robert Walsh, and subsequently by himself and his brother Squier. After conducting this with great success for nearly 22 years, Littell moved to Boston, Massachusetts.
In Boston, in April 1844, he began Littell's Living Age, a weekly literary periodical, published from an office at the corner of Bromfield and Tremont Streets. In 1855, he began the publication in Boston of the Panorama of Life and Literature, a monthly. Littell was the author of the "Compromise Tariff", which was advocated by Henry Clay and carried through the U.S. Congress during the administration of President Jackson. Littell died in Brookline, Massachusetts.