Charles Carroll Soule

Charles Carroll Soule (June 25, 1842 – January 7, 1913) was an American bookman with a side specialty in the architecture of libraries. Born in Boston to Richard Soule Jr. (1812–1877) and Harriet Winsor (1816–1905)^[1] he attended the Boston Latin School and Harvard College (1862), and fought in the Civil War (44th and 55th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantries).^[2] After the war he engaged in public speaking about post-slavery reconciliation in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.^[3]

Charles Carroll Soule
Born	June 25, 1842 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	January 7, 1913(1913-01-07) (aged 70) Brookline, Massachusetts
Burial place	Walnut Hills Cemetery
Education	Boston Latin School Harvard College
Occupation	Bookman
Known for	Founder of The Green Bag
Spouse	Louisa Charless Farwell ​ ​ (m. 1878)​

In the 1870s he worked in St. Louis in the publishing firm of Soule, Thomas & Winsor. ^[4][5] In the 1880s he ran a business selling law books from offices in Pemberton Square, Boston,^[6] and in 1886 opened a bookshop in a former church on Beacon Street, near the Boston Athenaeum.^[7] He established the Boston Book Company in 1889, and established The Green Bag, a legal news magazine with Horace Williams Fuller as editor. He belonged to the American Library Association.^[8]

He married Louisa Charless Farwell in 1878 and had 4 children.^[1] Towards the end of his life he resided in Brookline.

See also

• Saint Paul Public Library, Minnesota, designed by Soule