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Who is Standard?
We provide true-to-the-Bible resources that inspire, educate, and motivate people to a growing relationship with Jesus Christ.
For more than 145 years, Standard Publishing has been serving the Christian community with products that have but one purpose: bringing the Bible to life!
Standard Publishing’s rich heritage has its roots with a group of physicians, attorneys, educators, preachers, and James A. Garfield, who would later become the twentieth president of the United States.
In December 1865 this group met at the home of T. W. Phillips, a noted businessman and philanthropist in New Castle, Pennsylvania. They met to consider launching a journal that would be “devoted to New Testament Christianity.”
The group organized a publishing association, funded it with $20,000 in capital, and named the journal Christian Standard. Isaac Errett of Detroit, Michigan, was named the first editor.
The first issue came off the press dated April 7, 1866. After a year, funds were exhausted, and the founders wanted to shut the business down.
Errett wasn’t ready to give up yet though. So the original investors gave him the journal-and all its debts!
Errett continued as editor, even as he became president of a new college in Alliance, Ohio, in 1868. Soon the situation began to improve:
- In 1869 he partnered with R. W. Carroll, a printer and publisher, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- In 1872 Standard Publishing was formed.