A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Part 24

1887: Published Henry Ward Beecher Memorial (privately printed).

1889: October 20: Became editor of _The Ladies' Home Journal_.

1890: Published _Successward_: Doubleday, McClure & Company.

1894: Published _Before He Is Twenty_: Fleming H. Revell Company.

1896: October 22: Married Mary Louise Curtis.

1897: September 7: Son born; William Curtis Bok.

1900: Published _The Young Man in Business_: L. G. Page & Company.

1905: January 25: Son born: Cary William Bok.

1906: Published _Her Brother's Letters_ (Anonymous): Moffat, Yard & Company.

1907: Degree of LL.D. of Order of Augustinian Fathers conferred by order of Pope Pius X., by the Most Reverend Diomede Falconio, D.D., Apostolic Delegate to the United States, at Villanova College.

1910: Degree of LL.D. conferred, in absentia, by Hope College, Holland, Michigan (the only Dutch college in the United States).

1911: Founded, with others. The Child Federation of Philadelphia.

1912: Published _The Edward Bok Books of Self-Knowledge_; five volumes: Fleming H. Revell Company.

1913: Founded, with others, The Merion Civic a.s.sociation, at Merion, Pennsylvania.

1915: Published _Why I Believe in Poverty_: Houghton, Mifflin Company.

1916: Published poem, _G.o.d's Hand_, set to music by Josef Hofmann: Schirmer & Company.

1917: Vice-president Philadelphia Belgian Relief Commission.

1917: Member of National Y. M. C. A. War Work Council.

1917: State chairman for Pennsylvania of Y. M. C. A. War Work Council.

1918: Member of Executive Committee and chairman of Publicity Committee, Philadelphia War Chest.

1918: Chairman of Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. Recruiting Committee.

1918: State chairman for Pennsylvania of United War Work Campaign.

1918: August-November: visited the battle-fronts in France as guest of the British Government.

1918: September 22: Relinquished editorship of _The Ladies'

Home Journal_, completing thirty years of service.

1920: September 20: Upon the 50th anniversary of arrival in the United States, published _The Americanization of Edward Bok_.

1921: May 30: Awarded the one thousand dollar Joseph Pulitzer Prize for _The Americanization of Edward Bok_.

THE EXPRESSION OF A PERSONAL PLEASURE

I cannot close this record of a boy's development without an attempt to suggest the sense of deep personal pleasure which I feel that the imprint on the t.i.tle-page of this book should be that of the publishing house which, thirty-six years ago, I entered as stenographer. It was there I received my start; it was there I laid the foundation of that future career then so hidden from me. The happiest days of my young manhood were spent in the employ of this house; I there began friendships which have grown closer with each pa.s.sing year. And one of my deepest sources of satisfaction is, that during all the thirty-one years which have followed my resignation from the Scribner house, it has been my good fortune to hold the friendship, and, as I have been led to believe, the respect of my former employers. That they should now be my publishers demonstrates, in a striking manner, the curious turning of the wheel of time, and gives me a sense of gratification difficult of expression.

Edward W. Bok