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Dennis H. Cremin
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1999
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02 December 1999
Cole, George
Watson (06 September 1850–10 October 1939), librarian and bibliographer, was
born in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, the son of Munson Cole, a
businessman and inventor, and Antoinette Fidelia Taylor. Cole studied at both
Phillips and Exeter Academies and had some interest in literature. In 1865 his
father died, and two years later his mother married Levi W. Thrall, a widower
with nine children, of Guilford, Connecticut. In 1872 he married one of his
stepsisters, Martha A. Thrall, and then taught at a small country school in
Litchfield C ... Show More
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Ellis L. Yochelson
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1999
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02 December 1999
Darton,
Nelson Horatio (17 December 1865–28 February 1948), geological mapper,
groundwater specialist, and bibliographer, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the
son of William Darton, Jr., a shipbuilder and civil engineer, and Caroline
Matilda Thayer. Darton was a self-trained geologist who dropped out of public
school before the age of thirteen to apprentice as a chemist in his uncle’s
business. He became a member of the American Chemical Society at age sixteen
and shortly thereafter started his own business, selling distilled water. As a
practical chemist he ... Show More
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Jacob Kabakoff
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1999
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02 December 1999
Deinard,
Ephraim (11 May 1846–24 June 1930), Hebrew author, bibliographer, and
bookdealer, was born in Shossmaken, Courland, Russia, the son of Jekuthiel
Gerson Deinard and Leah Cohen. In addition to attending traditional schools of
Jewish learning, he also studied secular subjects with private tutors. By age
eighteen he was contributing articles on current issues to the Hebrew weekly
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Kenneth Potts
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1999
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02 December 1999
Eames,
Wilberforce (12 October 1855–06 December 1937), bibliographer and librarian,
was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Nelson Eames, a farmer and country
schoolmaster, and Harriet Phoebe Crane. At the age of six Eames moved with his
family to East New York, later a part of Brooklyn, where his father opened a
stationery shop. He would reside in Brooklyn for the remainder of his life....
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Brendan Rapple
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1999
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02 December 1999
Evans,
Charles (13 November 1850–08 February 1935), librarian and bibliographer, was
born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Peter Evans, a mariner, and
Mary Ewing. Both of his parents dying in his first nine years, Evans in 1859 was
sent to the Boston Farm and Trades School. Later in life he spoke
affectionately of his seven years there. At sixteen he was placed by Dr. ...
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Robert L. Gale
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1999
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02 December 1999
Ford,
Worthington Chauncey (16 February 1858–07 March 1941), historical editor and
bibliographer, was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Gordon Lester Ford, a
businessman, civic and cultural leader, and bibliophile, and Emily Ellsworth
Fowler, an author and a granddaughter of Noah Webster...
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Joanne E. Passet
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31 October 2012
Foster,
Jeannette Howard (03 November 1895–26 July 1981), librarian and bibliographer,
was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Winslow Howard Foster, a civil engineer, and
Anna Mabel Burr. Lacking a son, Winslow Foster had high expectations for his
firstborn daughter. She grew up hearing stories about her courageous paternal
ancestors who faced witchcraft allegations at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 and
a cousin, ...
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Nancy Whitten Zinn
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1999
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02 December 1999
Garrison,
Fielding Hudson (05 November 1870–18 April 1935), medical librarian,
bibliographer, and historian, was born in Washington, D.C., the son of John
Rowzee Garrison II, a comptroller for the federal government, and Jennie Davis.
Garrison graduated from Washington Central High School in 1886. After a year’s
concentration at home on music and college preparation, he matriculated at
Johns Hopkins University in 1887. There he focused on classical and modern languages,
with some physics and mathematics, graduating in 1890. Garrison’s facility in
languages a ... Show More
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Joy Kingsolver
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1999
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02 December 1999
Goldstein,
Fanny (1888–26 December 1961), librarian and bibliographer, was born in
Kamanetsk-Padolsk, Russia, the daughter of Philip Goldstein and Bella
Spillberg. Soon after she was born, her family emigrated to the United States,
settling in the North End in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1900. Because her father
died at an early age, leaving her mother with five children, Goldstein’s
education was limited. There are no records of her attendance at school after
the ninth grade. Later, as a young librarian, she took a few courses as a
special student at Simmons Col ... Show More
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Constance Koppelman
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1999
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02 December 1999
Greene, Belle
da Costa (26 November 1879–10 May 1950), library director, bibliographer, and
art connoisseur, was born Belle Marion Greener, the daughter of Richard
Greener, a lawyer and Republican party activist, and Genevieve Ida Fleet
Greener. Her place of birth was probably Washington, D.C., where her father
held a variety of jobs. But specifics concerning Greene's childhood and
education are scarce because she preferred to keep them a mystery. Apparently,
she attended Teachers College in New York City, where the family had relocated
after Richard Greener was ... Show More
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John D. Knowlton
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1999
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02 December 1999
Griffin,
Appleton Prentiss Clark (24 July 1852–16 April 1926), librarian and
bibliographer, was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, the son of Moses Porter
Griffin, a machinist, and Charlotte Helen Clark. The family moved to Medford,
Massachusetts, in 1854 and after some public schooling there Griffin went to
work at the Boston Public Library as a runner in 1865. He continued his
education with private tutors and, rising steadily, he succeeded to more
responsible positions: assistant (1869), assistant custodian (1872), custodian
in the shelf department (1875), cus ... Show More
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Richard Hollinger
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1999
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02 December 1999
Griswold,
William McCrillis (09 October 1853–03 August 1899), librarian, bibliographer,
and indexer, was born in Bangor, Maine, the son of Rufus Wilmot Griswold, a
minister, editor, and writer, and Harriet Stanley McCrillis. Griswold was
raised in Bangor, graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1871, and attended
Harvard University from 1871 to 1875. After graduating from Harvard he traveled
in Europe for several years. In 1882 he married Anne Deering Merrill, with whom
he had four children....
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George B. Kauffman
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1999
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02 December 1999
Howe, James
Lewis (04 August 1859–20 December 1955), chemist and bibliographer of the
platinum metals, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of Francis
Augustine Howe, a physician, and Mary Frances Lewis. The Howe family was noted
for its progressive and liberal outlook. Howe originally intended to become a
physician like his father, but during high school in Newburyport he became
interested in chemistry. He received his B.A. degree in 1880 from Amherst
College, his father’s alma mater....
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Kenneth E. Carpenter
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1999
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02 December 1999
Jackson,
William Alexander (25 July 1905–18 October 1964), librarian and bibliographer,
was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont, the son of Charles Wilfred Jackson, a
Baptist clergyman, and Alice Mary Fleming. The family moved to Canada and then
to South Pasadena, California, where Jackson had his schooling, graduating from
the local high school in 1922. At an early age, inspired by writings of the bibliophile
A. Edward Newton, and stimulated by proximity to the newly founded (1919)
Huntington Library (its first librarian, ...
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Joseph A. Boromé
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1999
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02 December 1999
Jewett,
Charles Coffin (12 August 1816–09 January 1868), librarian and bibliographer,
was born in Lebanon, Maine, the son of Paul Jewett, a congregational minister,
and Eleanor Masury Punchard. He grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated
from the Latin School in 1831. He matriculated at Dartmouth College, but within
a year he transferred to Brown University, from which he received a B.A. as the
youngest member of his class. After two years of teaching at the Uxbridge
(Mass.) Academy, feeling himself drawn to missionary work, he entered Andover
Theological ... Show More
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David J. Whittaker
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1999
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02 December 1999
Morgan, Dale
Lowell (18 December 1914–30 March 1971), historian, editor, and bibliographer,
was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the son of James Lowell Morgan, an office
machine salesman, and Emily May Holmes, a schoolteacher. Morgan’s father died
when he was six years old, and the burden of caring for the family of four
children fell on his mother, who taught in the Salt Lake City public schools.
Morgan was a gifted student, but his contracting spinal meningitis at age
fourteen seriously changed his life; he was left totally deaf....
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Andrew B. Wertheimer
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1999
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02 December 1999
Oko, Adolph
S. (05 January 1883–03 October 1944), librarian, Spinozist, and Judaica
bibliographer, was born in Rudkov, Russia, to Tebel Oko, a cattle and grain
merchant, and Deborah (maiden name unknown). Young Oko was educated in Germany
before immigrating to the United States at the age of nineteen. He soon found
work at the Astor Library (part of New York Public Library’s Research Collection)
working with Abraham Freidus and other American library leaders. It was at the
Astor Library that Oko mastered the skills of librarianship. Four years later
he was recr ... Show More
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John Mark Tucker
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1999
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02 December 1999
Sabin, Joseph
(06 December 1821–05 June 1881), bibliographer and bookseller, was born in
Braunston, Northamptonshire, near Oxford, England, the son of Joseph Sabin and
Mary Shirley. He studied in the common schools in Oxford but did not attend a
university. At age fourteen he was apprenticed to Oxford book dealer Charles
Richards, who taught him bookbinding but transferred him to sales when his
bibliophilic interests began to emerge. Thus immersed in books and prints,
Sabin grew to be effective with customers and was promoted to general manager,
a position th ... Show More
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Christine Hoffman
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1999
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02 December 1999
Sonneck,
Oscar George Theodore (06 October 1873–30 October 1928), music bibliographer,
librarian, and editor, was born in Lafayette (now Jersey City), New Jersey, the
son of George C. Sonneck, a civil engineer, and Julia Meyne. His father died
while Oscar was still an infant, and his mother took him with her to Germany,
where she had accepted a domestic position in Frankfurt-am-Main. His primary
education took place at Kiel’s Gelehrtenschule, and he attended Gymnasium at
Frankfurt. After a brief sojourn at the University of Heidelberg, he took up
residence a ... Show More
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Martin J. Manning
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1999
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02 December 1999
Swem, Earl
Gregg (29 December 1870–14 April 1965), bibliographer and librarian, was born
in Belle Plaine, Iowa, the son of Edward Lawrence Swem, a photographer, tax
collector, and police officer, and Emmeline Luse. After his preliminary education,
Swem attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he earned an
A.B. in 1893 and an A.M. in 1896. Swem’s library career spanned seventy-five
years. He began as a high school student at the Iowa Masonic Library in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. After spending his immediate postgraduate years teaching in a New
York pr ... Show More
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John David Smith
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1999
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02 December 1999
Weeks,
Stephen Beauregard (02 February 1865–03 May 1918), historian, bibliographer,
and collector, was born near Nixonton, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, the
son of James Elliott Weeks, a planter, and Mary Louisa Mullen. His parents died
when he was a small child, and Weeks was raised by his father’s sister and her
husband, Robertson Jackson....
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William M. Grealish
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1999
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02 December 1999
Wheeler,
William Adolphus (14 November 1833–28 October 1874), lexicographer,
bibliographer, and librarian, was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of
Amos Dean Wheeler, a Unitarian minister, and Louisa Warren. Having spent much
of his youth at Topsham, Maine, Wheeler attended Bowdoin College, where he
received an A.B. in 1853 and an A.M. three years later....
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Marie C. Ellis
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1999
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02 December 1999
Wilson,
Halsey William (12 May 1868–01 March 1954), bibliographer and publisher, was
born in Wilmington, Vermont, the son of John Thompson Wilson, a stonecutter,
and Althea Dunnell. An only child, Wilson lost both his parents to tuberculosis
before he was three, and he spent his early childhood with his mother’s
parents, first in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, and later near Colrain. When
Wilson was twelve, he went to live with an uncle on a farm near Waterloo, Iowa.
After attending the preparatory academy associated with Beloit College, in
Wisconsin, f ... Show More
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Kenneth E. Carpenter
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1999
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02 December 1999
Winship,
George Parker (29 July 1871–22 June 1952), librarian and bibliographer, was
born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Albert Ellis Winship, a teacher,
minister, and editor, and Ella Rebecca Parker. After graduating from Somerville
(Mass.) High School, he entered Harvard, where he received the A.B. in 1893 and
the A.M. in history in 1894. During college he explored the rare holdings of
the Harvard library and translated and edited Pedro de Castañeda’s ...
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