Compton graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and from 1894 he was an associate of publisher Chandler Beach.
He took over the firm when Beach retired in 1907, and the company name later changed to F. E. Compton & Co.. Compton spent his career in Chicago and he died in La Jolla, California.
Beach & Company until 1912, then by F. E. Compton & Co.. Publishing rights to the F.E.
Compton & Company products were acquired by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1961,[1] and the encyclopedia is still in print as Compton's by Britannica.
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