Geo. H. Mifflin

It was only two years after his graduation from Harvard in 1865 that George Harrison Mifflin entered the well-known Boston publishing house with which, under its various changes of name and personnel, he remained associated during the subsequent half-century. By his business associates Mr. Mifflin was recognized as a vital force in the enterprise, a promoter of the highest literary ideals; by the authors with whom he came in contact as a cordial and responsive personality, scrupulously just in all financial dealings; by his wide circle of personal friends as a delightful host at Andover, Nahant, and Boston. Those friends will recall his personality under such auspices as one of exceptional, at times even of boisterous, vigor. The loud shout of laughter, the splendid explosing [sic] of righteous indignation, were characteristic of him in his prime. He had a liking for the leading place in a conversation worthy of any Centurion, and his talk was good talk, full of ripe experience and humor, made vivid by a faculty of dramatic imitation. Perhaps his most distinctive and amiable quality was a certain boyishness that persisted to the end; an exuberance of delight even in the little events and achievements of every business day.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1922 Century Association Yearbook