Howley, Haviland and Company (1893–1904)

Howley, Haviland and Company (1893–1904) One of the most successful of the Tin Pan Alley publishers. Patrick Howley (1870–1918), manager of Willis Woodward and Company , decided that there could be more to publishing than the sentimental ballads his firm bought. In 1893, he joined with Frederick Benjamin Haviland (1868–1932), New York sales manager for the Boston-based Oliver Ditson Company, which at that time was a classical and parlor-music publisher and sheet music wholesaler. They wanted to…