Fleming H. Revell (1849-1931) was born in Evanston, Illinois, and died in
Yonkers, New York. In 1870, alongside his brother-in-law, Dwight L. Moody, he founded
the Fleming H. Revell Company, an independent Christian book publisher and seller in
Chicago. The mission of the company was to publish books that brought Christianity into
everyday life, and they became one of the foremost publishers of evangelical works in
the United States. From 1884-1886, the Revell Company acted as a wholesaler for
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In
1887, Revell moved his company to New York, New York, where he continued to work as its
president until 1929.
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