Archives of Swan Sonnenschein & Co 1878-1916

Swan Sonnenschein and Co, publishers

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Swan Sonnenschein & Co.

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William Swan Sonnenschein was born in 1855, third of the six children of Adolphus Sonnenschein, a teacher and writer of textbooks originally from Moravia, and his first wife Sarah Robinson Stallybrass. William's name derived from the fact that his maternal grandfather, Edward Stallybrass, had been a missionary to Mongolia with William Swan and they worked on a Mongolian translation of the New Testament together. As a young man William was apprenticed to the firm of Willi...