Biography:

Morris H. Traubel (also credited as Mauritz or Martin H. Traubel) was born in Germany, where he studied lithography. By the early 1850s, he had immigrated to Philadelphia, where he briefly partnered with Edward Schnabel, Theodore Leonhardt, and John F. Finkeldey to form a printing business called the Lithographic Institute. Traubel subsequently started his own printing firm in Philadelphia, where he continued to live and work until his death in 1897.