Ralph Lane Polk

Portrait of Ralph L. Polk, ca.1905

Ralph Lane Polk (1849 – 1923) was an American compiler of facts and publisher of directories. Born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Polk was educated at the Pennington School, New Jersey. He became a successful Detroit publisher and president of R.L. Polk & Co.[1][2][3] He belonged to the Association of North American Directory Publishers. His son, Ralph Lane Polk Jr. (born 1911), was a later president of the company[4] which still exists in 2013.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Herringshaw, T. W., Herringshaw's national library of American biography, 1909-1914
  2. ↑ Albert Nelson Marquis (1914), The Book of Detroiters, Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company
  3. ↑ Livingstone's History of the Republican Party. 1900.
  4. ↑ Who's Who in the Midwest, 6th ed., 1958
  5. ↑ "R.L. Polk & Co. (POLL)". Bloomberg. Retrieved April 5, 2013.