Standard Publishing

Standard Publishing has been a publisher of Christian material for 150 years. The founding of Standard Publishing parallels the history of the restoration movement.Isaac Erret, Herbert Moninger, J. D. Murch, Lillie Faris. Guy P. Leavitt, C. P. Sharp, P. H. Welshimer, W. R. Walker, and Burris Butler were all editors, publishers, and contributors and were all leaders of the restoration movement (1790-1825).

Standard Publishing began 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, its doctrine, its ordinances, and its fruits."

The group organized a publishing association, funded it with $20,000 in capital, and named the journal Christian Standard. Errett of Detroit, Michigan, was named the first editor.

The first issue came off the press dated April 7, 1866.

Errett continued as editor, even as he became president of a new college in Alliance, Ohio, in 1868.

In 1869, he partnered with R. W. Carroll, a printer and publisher, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1872, Errett, Carroll, and Errett's 22-year-old son, Russell, incorporated their publishing house as Standard Publishing.

A two-story building at Ninth and Cutter Streets was purchased in 1914. The Ferro Construction Company erected the company's building at Eighth and Cutter Streets, reported to be the first concrete and steel building put up west of Pittsburgh.

That year the company began to do color printing, which was new at that time. Also established was an engraving division known as the Sterling Engraving Company. In 1945, a new building at Parkway and Jackson Streets, was purchased to house the company's expanded offices. A bookstore opened in 1947.

In 1955, the company moved to a new, air-conditioned plant in Mount Healthy, a northern suburb of Cincinnati.

This single-story plant occupied about seven acres and housed composing, preliminary, printing, binding, and mailing operations. The printing plant included several web as well as large sheetfed presses including a press to apply felt backing to cut-out figures creating flannelgraph sets.

In 1973, the company's printing plant consumed 27,500,000 pounds of paper and more than 400,000 pounds of ink.

The company eventually moved out of the printing business and relocated to its current office complex just north of Cincinnati.

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