Chronology
| August 1877 | Phineas P. Mast, a wealthy Springfield industrialist who made his fortune manufacturing agricultural implements, hires John S. Crowell to manage a new bi-monthly farm journal titled Farm and Fireside. |
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| 1879 | P.P. Mast relinquishes his role as an acting executive, participating only as a financier. John S. Crowell and T.J. Kirkpatrick, the nephew of P.P. Mast, remained to administer the journal. The publishing house revised its name to Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick Publishers. | |
| 1881 | The construction of the Farm and Fireside building located at the corner of High and Factory (now Wittenberg Ave.) is completed. | |
| 1883 | Mast, Crowell, and T.J. Kirkpatrick acquire The Home Companion from a group of publishers based in Cleveland. Mast, Crowell, and Kirkpatrick change the name of the publication to The Ladies Home Companion. | |
| 1897 | Mast, Crowell, & Kirkpatrick change the title of The Ladies Home Companion to The Women's Home Companion. | |
| 1898 | Following the death of P.P. Mast, John S. Crowell and T.J. Kirkpatrick changed the company name to Crowell and Kirkpatrick Publishing. | |
| 1902 | John S. Crowell purchases T.J. Kirkpatrick's interests in the company, thus establishing the Crowell Publishing Co. | |
| 1906 | John S. Crowell sells his interest in the Crowell Publishing Co. to Joseph Knapp and George Hazen of New York. The new owners retained the name Crowell Publishing Co. | |
| 1911 | Crowell Publishing acquires American Magazine. | |
| 1919 | The Crowell Publishing Co. acquires Collier's : The National Weekly. While Collier's was owned by Crowell Publishing the corporate operations of the magazine would remain in New York. | |
| 1930 | Farm and Fireside is changed to The Country Home. | |
| 1939 | Crowell Publishing merges the New York operations and
changes the company name to The Crowell-Collier Publishing
Co. The Country Home is discontinued. |
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| 1955 | The American Magazine is discontinued. | |
| 1956 | Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. announces that it will discontinue Women's Home Companion and Collier's at the end of the year. |
