George Harrison Mifflin (1845 - 1921) was an executive in the publishing business.
He joined Hurd and Houghton in 1867[3] and worked for its subsidiary Riverside Press.
He communicated with some of its prominent authors through good times and bad.
[5] Mifflin was at first skeptical of the company's investment in educational publishing.
[6] He was socially connected to Sarah Wyman Whitman, who designed elegant book covers for the business.