Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia (1868-1880)
E. Claxton & Co, Philadelphia (1880-1884)

Edmund Claxton, George Remsen, and Charles C. Haffelfinger previously of the publishing house of Grigg, Elliot and Company and most recently of the firm J. B. Lippincott & Company announced in February, 1868 the formation of their new publishing company, Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger. This new firm was located at 819 and 821 Market Street in Philadelphia.

624, 626 & 628 Market Street

Edmund Claxton (1817-1891) in his early days worked as a bookseller with Stoddart and Atherton. In 1833 he was employed by John Grigg and later Grigg and Elliott, the well known Philadelphia publisher. Of note is that George Remsen was also with Grigg from 1828. In 1846 Remsen and Claxton were made partners in the newly named Grigg, Elliott and Co. firm. This latter firm was bought out by J. B. Lippincott in 1850 and renamed Lippincott, Grambo & Co. In 1868 Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger left Lippincott to form their own firm.

Charles Haffelfinger (1827-1885) was born in Philadelphia. He apprenticed with the Grigg, Elliott firm as well as its successor, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. In 1858 he became a partner in J. B. Lippincott & Co. He left in 1868 along with Claxton and Remsen to form the new firm noted here.

George Remsen died in 1880. Edmund Claxton continued the firm under the name of E. Claxton & Co. taking in as his partner, his son, Robert Claxton. Haffelfinger worked for a couple of years as a salesman for E. Clayton & Co. before ill health forced him into retirement. This firm failed secondary to financial setbacks in 1884. Its stock and plates were sold at auction in June of 1884.

* No relationship exists between Edmund Claxton and James S. Claxton, the Philadelphia publisher and the successor to Wm. S. and Alfred Martien.

Firm addresses
1868-1872 819 and 821 Market Street
1873-1880 624, 626 & 628 Market Street
1881-1884 930 Market Street

The juvenile series below were all published by Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger except for the Woodcliff Children Series which was only published by E. Claxton & Co.. The sets that were also published by E. Claxton have the initials EC after the series name in the listing.

Note that a number of the series listed here were previously published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Many of these early books have the Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger initials on the cover and/or the spine with the Lippincott title page on the title page

Some but not all of the series were published by E. Claxton & Co. after CRH went out of business.