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The success of the firm was largely in part to the perfectly matched but widely varied talents of
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became a partner in the deal. The partnership lasted until 1880, when Osgood left to form a second J. R. Osgood and
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referred to it as "the hub of the Hub", referring to Boston's nickname, and said that it "compelled the world to acknowledge that there was an
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as an apprentice. When
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and John Allen began a small bookselling business called
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