Donation 1 00
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$2029 39
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PAYMENTS, JAN.-DEC., 1900.
Proceedings, including delivery:
Jan. 15. _Publishers' Weekly_, balance on printing and
binding Atlanta Proceedings $142 92
_Publishers' Weekly_, delivery Atlanta
Proceedings 66 27
Mar. 17. _Publishers' Weekly_, cartage 50
Oct. 2. _Publishers' Weekly_, Montreal Proceedings
and delivery 881 34
------ $1091 03
Stenographer:
June 30. J. H. Kenehan $30 75
July 7. G. D. Robinson 73 69
------ $104 44
Secretary and conference expenses:
April 24. F. H. Gerlock & Co., printing handbook $59 00
F. H. Gerlock & Co., circulars, etc. 35 25
May 29. Henry J. Carr, postage, etc. 112 90
June 30. F. H. Gerlock & Co., programs and
circulars 37 75
July 24. Henry J. Carr, travel secretaries'
expenses 67 92
Oct. 18. F. W. Faxon, stamped envelopes, etc. 15 60
Dec. 12. F. W. Faxon, salary, on account 50 00
----- $378 42
Treasurer's expenses:
May 29. Gardner M. Jones, postage, etc. $14 00
Oct. 2. Salem Press Co., printing bills, etc. 5 50
Gardner M. Jones, stamped envelopes, etc. 46 85
Dec. 24. Gardner M. Jones, expenses 31 55
----- $97 90
Trustees of the Endowment Fund, life membership for
investment $50 00
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$1721 79
Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1900:
Deposit in New England Trust Co., Boston $201 55
Deposit in Merchants' Bank, Salem, Mass. 106 05 $307 60
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From Jan. 1 to July 1, 1901, the receipts have been $1650.00 and the
payments $781.32, the balance on hand July 1 being $1176.28. The
membership, hence the income, of the Association is increasing from year
to year, but it should be borne in mind that increased membership means
increased expenses. The secretary and treasurer are obliged to ask for
more money for postage, stationery, printing, etc., and it is only by
the most rigid condensation that the recorder is able to keep our
conference Proceedings within our means.
The number of members in good standing on Dec. 31, 1900, was as follows:
Honorary members 3
Perpetual member 1
Life fellows 2
Life members 34
Annual fellows (paid for 1900) 9
Annual members (paid for 1900) 796
Library members (paid for 1900) 29
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874
During the year 1900, 208 new members joined the Association and seven
died.
GARDNER M. JONES, _Treasurer_.
The following report of audit was appended:
The Finance Committee have performed the duties laid down in the
constitution; they have examined the accounts of the treasurer, during
the period covered by his report, and find them properly kept and
vouched for.
JAMES L. WHITNEY, }
CHARLES K. BOLTON, } _Finance Committee._
GEO. T. LITTLE. }
_Necrology._
1. Eleanor Arnold Angell (A. L. A. no. 1631, 1897) assistant librarian
American Society of Civil Engineers, New York City. Born Jan. 23, 1874;
died in New York City May 18, 1900. Miss Angell graduated from the Pratt
Institute Library School in 1896 and was a member of the Pratt Institute
Library staff until July, 1897. From Dec., 1897, to the time of her
death she was assistant librarian of the American Society of Civil
Engineers.
2. Hon. Mellen Chamberlain (A. L. A. no. 335, 1879) ex-librarian, Boston
Public Library. Born in Pembroke, N. H., June 4, 1821; died in Chelsea,
Mass., June 25, 1900. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1844,
taught school at Brattleboro, Vt., entered the Harvard Law School in
1846, was graduated and admitted to the bar in 1849. In the same year he
took up his residence in Chelsea and began the practice of law in
Boston. He held several municipal offices and was a member of both
houses of the state legislature. From 1866 to 1870 he was an associate
justice of the Municipal Court of Boston, then chief justice of the same
court until his resignation in 1878. He was librarian of the Boston
Public Library from Oct. 1, 1878, to Oct. 1, 1890. During his
administration the library's collection of Americana was largely
increased and the preliminary plans for the new building were developed.
The remainder of his life was devoted to literary and historical work.
Judge Chamberlain was recognized as one of the foremost students of
American colonial history and his collection of autographic documents
relating to American history was one of the finest in the country. This
collection was deposited in the Boston Public Library in 1893 and became
its property on the death of Judge Chamberlain.
(_See "Brief description of the Chamberlain collection of autographs,"
published by the Boston Public Library._)
3. Henry Barnard (A. L. A. no. 104, 1877.) Born in Hartford, Ct., Jan.
24, 1811; died July 5, 1900. He graduated from Yale College in 1830 and
in 1835 was admitted to the bar. From 1837-40 he was a member of the
Connecticut legislature and during his term of service advocated reforms
in insane asylums, prisons and the common schools. From 1838 to 1842 he
was secretary of the board of school commissioners in Connecticut; from
1842 to 1849 school commissioner of Rhode Island; from 1850 to 1854
state superintendent of the Connecticut schools, and from 1857 to 1859
president of the State University of Wisconsin. From 1865 to 1867 he was
president of St. John's College, and from 1867 to 1870 U. S.
Commissioner of Education. He wrote and compiled many educational books
and edited several educational periodicals, the most important being the
_American Journal of Education_. In 1886 he published a collected
edition of his works comprising 52 volumes and over 800 original
treatises. Dr. Barnard received the degree of LL.D. from Yale and Union
in 1851 and from Harvard in 1852. He was always greatly interested in
libraries. In 1823 or 1824 he served as assistant librarian and made his
first donation to the library of Monson Academy, and from 1828 to 1830
was librarian of the Linonian Society of Yale College, giving twice the
amount of the small salary back to the library in books. During his
connection with the legislature and common schools of Connecticut, 1837
to 1842, the district school library system was established and the
power of taxation for libraries was given to every school society in the
state. During his sojourn in Rhode Island he started a library in every
town in the state. He joined the A. L. A. in 1877, and was made an
honorary member at Chicago in 1893. He attended the conferences of 1876,
1877, and 1893.
("_National cyclopedia of American biography," vol. I; L. J._, 4:289.)
4. Enos L. Doan (A. L. A. no. 1909, 1899), librarian of the Wilmington
(Del.) Institute Free Library. Born in Indiana about 40 years ago; died
in Wilmington, Dec. 18, 1900. He was a graduate of Haverford College and
was for several years connected with the Friends' School in Wilmington,
first as teacher and later as assistant principal and principal. In the
spring of 1899 he resigned that office to accept the appointment of
librarian of the Wilmington Institute Free Library. He had previously
been active in the development of the library, and as chairman of the
library committee had aided in the reorganization of the former
subscription library into a free public library.
(_L. J., Jan., 1901._)
5. Josiah Norris Wing (A. L. A. no. 585, 1886), librarian New York Free
Circulating Library. Born near Lynchburg, Va., Sept. 29, 1848; died in
New York City, Dec. 20, 1900. His father, E. N. Wing, was engineer of
the East Tenn. and Va. R. R. He was a Union man and after the siege of
Knoxville removed to New York City. Here young Wing attended the public
schools and entered the College of the City of New York, but before the
close of the first year he became a clerk in the Mercantile Library. He
was connected with the library for 13 years and became first assistant
librarian, but his unceasing work and devotion to details injured his
health and he was obliged to retire from active work. In 1880 he took
charge of the library department of Charles Scribner's Sons, for which
his library training well fitted him. In April, 1899, he was elected
chief librarian of the New York Free Circulating Library. During the
years he was in the book business Mr. Wing kept in close touch with
library interests. He was a member of the A. L. A. for 14 years, and was
almost from its beginning an active member of the New York Library Club.
He had been treasurer of the New York Library Association for seven
years, holding that office at the time of his death. He was also
prominent in book trade organizations and in various civic reform
movements in New York City. He was always ready to give help and service
in any good cause and he will be missed by many friends among librarians
and bookbuyers.
(_Publishers' Weekly, Dec. 29, 1900; L. J., Jan., 1901._)
6. Huntington Wolcott Jackson (A. L. A. no. 884, 1890), president board
of directors of the John Crerar Library. Born in Newark, N. J., Jan. 28,
1841; died in Chicago, Jan. 3, 1901. He attended Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., and entered Princeton College. At the end of his junior
year he enlisted in the army, where he secured rapid promotion. After a
year at the Harvard Law School and a year spent in European travel and
study, he finished his studies in Chicago and was admitted to the bar in
1868. He practiced law in Chicago and in 1888 was elected president of
the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Jackson was a warm and trusted friend
of the late John Crerar. At Mr. Crerar's death he was, with Mr. Norman
Williams, one of the executors of the will and a co-trustee of the John
Crerar Library, then to be founded. For many years Mr. Jackson was
chairman of the committee on administration and practically all of the
details of administration were passed upon by him and some quite
important changes were made by him. Mr. Jackson was a member of the A.
L. A. from 1890 until his death, but there is no record of his
attendance at any conference.
(_See Report of John Crerar Library, 1900._)
7. Robert Crossman Ingraham (A. L. A. no. 205, 1879), librarian of the
New Bedford (Mass.) Free Public Library. Born in New Bedford, Feb. 11,
1827; died there March 3, 1901. The New Bedford Free Public Library was
instituted in 1852 and Mr. Ingraham was chosen its first librarian, then
taking up the work to which he gave nearly half a century. Under his
management the library grew from its nucleus of 5500 volumes to 72,000
volumes, and the strength and good proportions of the collection are due
to his scholarship, unsparing labor, and discernment of local needs. For
many years Mr. Ingraham had little or no assistance in the library, yet
for more than 30 years he cataloged every book added to its shelves. He
kept in touch with changes in library administration and was not
prevented by conservatism from adopting those which his good judgment
approved. Mr. Ingraham was a man of retiring disposition and simple
tastes, a hard student with a marvellous memory. In addition to his
great fund of general information, and knowledge of the books in his
library, he was thoroughly posted in everything relating to the history
of New Bedford, and had few equals in his knowledge of mosses and
liverworts. He devoted his life to his library and his fund of erudition
was always at the service of every one who sought his assistance.
(_See W. R. L. Gifford in L. J., April, 1901._)
8. Eugene Francis Malcouronne (A. L. A. no. 1973, 1900), for the last 10
years secretary-treasurer and librarian of the Fraser Institute Free
Public Library, of Montreal, died April 11, 1901. Mr. Malcouronne will
be pleasantly remembered by many who attended the Montreal conference.
The treasurer's report was accepted.