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• Category:Edward Capen op. pg. 030

Caption: Edward Capen.
First Librarian, 1852-1874. Born, Dorchester (Mass.), October 20, 1821; died, Haverhill (Mass.), October 20, 1901. Harvard College, class of 1842; clergyman, 1846; secretary, Boston School Committee, 1852.

• Category:Joshua Bates op. pg. 044

Caption: Joshua Bates.
Liberal benefactor of the Library. Born Weymouth (Mass.), 1788; died London (Eng.), September 24, 1864. Financier; partner in Baring Brothers & Co.

• Category:George Ticknor op. pg. 060

Caption: George Ticknor.
Trustee of the Library, 1852-1866; President of the Board, 1865. Born, Boston, August 1, 1791; died, Boston, January 26, 1871. Dartmouth College, class of 1807; lawyer and author; professor of French and Spanish languages and of Belles-Lettres at Harvard College, 1819-1835.

• Category:Charles Coffin Jewett op. pg. 064

Caption: Charles Coffin Jewett.
Superintendent, 1858—1868. Born, Lebanon (Me.), August 12, 1816; died, Braintree (Mass.), January 9, 1868. Brown University, class of 1835; teacher (Uxbridge and Wrentham, Mass.), librarian (Andover, Mass.), 1835-1841; librarian, Brown University, 1842—1848; professor of modern languages, Brown University, 1843—1848; librarian (and assistant secretary), Smithsonian Institution, 1848—1858.

• Category:Justin Winsor op. pg. 076

Caption: Justin Winsor.
Superintendent, 1868—1877. Born, Boston, January 2, 1831; died, Cambridge (Mass.), October 22, 1897. Harvard College, class of 1853; author; Trustee of the Library, 1867—1868; Librarian of Harvard College Library, 1877—1897.

• Category:William Whitwell Greenough op. pg. 108

Caption: William Whitwell Greenough.
Trustee of the Library, 1856-1888. President of the Board, 1866—1888. Born, Boston, June 25, 1818; died, Boston, June 17, 1899. Harvard College, class of 1837. Entered mercantile life in Boston. Treasurer, Boston Gas Light Company, 1852—1887; Trustee, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1856—1866; of the Provident Institution for Savings from 1857; of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, from 1870.

• Category:William Cleaves Todd op. pg. 142

Caption: William Cleaves Todd.
Liberal benefactor of the Library in the establishment of a newspaper reading room. Born, Atkinson (N. H.), February 16, 1823; died, Atkinson (N. H.), June 26, 1904. Dartmouth College, class of 1844; teacher (Shepherdsville, Ky., 1848, 1849; Candia, N. H., 1849-1854; Newburyport, Mass., 1854—1864); New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1883—1887.

• Category:Frederick O. Prince op. pg. 182

Caption: Frederick Octavius Prince.
Trustee of the Library, 1888—1899. President of the Board, 1895-1899. Born, Boston, January 18, 1818; died, Boston, June 6, 1899. Harvard College, class of 1836; lawyer; Mayor of Boston, 1877; 1879—1881.

• Category:Solomon Lincoln op. pg. 184

Caption: Solomon Lincoln.
Trustee of the Library, 1897-1907. President of the Board, 1899-1907. Born, Hingham (Mass.), August 14, 1838; died, Boston, October 15, 1907. Harvard College, class of 1857; lawyer; Overseer, Harvard (President of Board), 1890-1902; President of Bar Association of the City of Boston, 1885-1886.

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