Albert Blake Dick (April 16, 1856 – August 15, 1934) was a businessman who founded the A. B. Dick Company, a major American copier manufacturer and office supply company of the 20th Century. He coined the word "mimeograph". Dick attended school in Galesburg, Illinois, then worked successively for the Brown manufacturing company, Deere & Mansur, and the Moline Lumber Company. He founded the A. B. Dick Company in 1883. It was originally a lumber company before branching into office supplies. Dick lived in Lake Forest, Illinois. He died at his home there on August 15, 1934. References Further reading Buck, Glen. Fifty Years 1884-1834, A. B. Dick Company. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1934. (with drawings by Rockwell Kent and photographs by Torkel Korling.) External links Chicago Historical Society entry on A. B. Dick Company 1856 births 1934 deaths American manufacturing businesspeople Burials at Rosehill Cemetery People from Galesburg, Illinois 19th-century American businesspeople