Location. TABLE 86.-Additional public libraries numbering 1,000 volumes and upwards, from replies to inquiries by the United States Bureau of Education. NOTE.-Explanation of abbreviations: Sch., School; Col., College; Soc'y, College society libraries; Soc'l, Social; Med.. Medical; The'l, Theological; His't, Historical; Sci., Scientific; San.. Sanitary; Mer., Mercantile; Y. M. C. A., Your Men's Christian Association; Gov't, Government; Ter., Ter; ritorial; Gar., Garrison; A. & R., Asylum and Reformatory; Gen., General; 0 signifies no or nonesignifies no answer. .... Biddeford, Me.... South Abington, Mass. Near Mobile, Ala...... Sacramento, Cal...... Augusta, Me.. Oxford, Me.. Ashfield, Mass. Worcester, Mass... Helena, Mont N. Brunswick, N. J... New Castle, Pa..... Young Men's Christian Association Li 1886 Sub... Y. M.C.A. 1,793 TABLE 87.-Summary of statistics of public libraries numbering 1,000 volumes and upwards; compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Education for 1884-'85 and 1885-'86. 1 TABLE 88.—Additional public libraries of 300 to 1,000 rolumes, from replies to inquiries by the United States Bureau of Education. Location. Name of library. When founded. Free or subscription. 5 Class. brary. Phoenix, Ariz.. Ferndale, Cal..... New Almaden, Cal... Coal City, Ill.. Attica, Ind Dublin, Ind.. New Providence, Ind Smith's Valley, Ind White River Township Library.. 1851 300 Southport, Ind.. Spiceland, Ind Perry Township Library. Crescent and Lucernian Library. 445 Glisco Library Select Library ciation. Spiceland, Ind Mt. Vernon, Iowa. North Searsmont, Me.. Princeton, Me.... Shirley Village, Mass Winthrop, Mass Waterloo Library. Amphiction Literary Society Library.. Reading Room and Library Association.. Dennysville and Edmunds Library Asso 1863 Sub... 650 1860 Public Library.. 1874 Sub... 337 Library Association.... 1868 | Sub... Circulating Library. 1882 | Sub. 365 Public Library. 1835 Free.. 1896 Free.. 1886 Free.. 70 825 C .. Free.. 500 No. of volumes. V.-NECROLOGY. Rev. Joseph Alden, D. D., LL. D., professor of rhetoric at Williams College, Massachusetts, and of philosophy at La Fayette College, Pennsylvania, president of Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and for 25 years head of the New York State Normal School at Albany. Died in New York, August 30, 1885, aged 78. Henry Bradshaw, nineteenth librarian of Cambridge University, England. An eminent bibliographer. Died February 10, 1885, aged 54. Rev. Samuel Gilman Brown, D. D., LL. D., &c. Born January 4, 1813; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1831, and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1837. He taught the public high school in Ellington, Conn., from 1832 to 1833, and in the Abbot Academy at Andover, Mass., from 1833 to 1838; was professor, in Dartmouth, of belles lettres and oratory, 1840 to 1863; of political economy, &c., 1863 to 1867; of mental and moral philosophy and political economy, 1881 to 1883. He was also president of Hamilton College, New York, from 1867 to 1881, and professor of mental and moral philosophy in Bowdoin College, Maine, from 1881 to 1883. He edited the "Life, Speeches, and Addresses of Rufus Choate," 2 vols., 1862, and published many addresses delivered on important occasions. Died at Utica, N. Y., November 4, 1885. Daniel Chase, a teacher from 1847 to 1871, graduate of Dartmouth in 1839. Died at Philadelphia, Pa., January 2, 1886, aged 74 years. Rev. John C. Draper, LL. D., from 1858 to 1868, professor of analytical chemistry in the University of the City of New York, and also in the Cooper Institute, and in the College of the City of New York. Died in that city December 20, 1885, aged 50. James Fergusson, LL. D., historian on architecture. Born, 1808; died January 9, 1885. John Giles, graduate of Dartmouth in 1842; teacher and school officer in various places, 1842 to 1884. Died at Springfield, Mass., April 28, 1886, aged 70 years. Henry Norman Hudson, LL. D., professor in Boston University, Shakespearean editor, &c. Died January 16, 1886, aged 72. Helen Hunt Jackson, author of two important works on the educational and civil rights of Indians. Born October 18, 1831, at Amherst, Mass. Died at her home in San Francisco, Cal., August 12, 1885. Henry Brace Norton, principal of the training school of Illinois Normal University, 1861, professor of chemistry in the Kansas State Normal School, 1865 to 1870, and in the California State Normal, San José, 1875 to 1885. Died near the latter place June 2, 1885, age! 49. Rev. Daniel James Noyes, D. D., professor in Dartmouth College, 1849 to 1883. Died at Chester, N. H., December 22, 1885, aged 73 years. Henry Kemble Oliver, A. M., Mus. D. Born November 24, 1800; educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, the Latin School, Boston, Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges, graduating from the last named in 1818. Tanght in public and private schools in Salem from 1819 to 1844; was a member of the Lawrence, Mass., school committee in 1849, and superintendent of public schools in that city in 1858; served for many years on the examining committee of Harvard College, and, in 1847, was a visitor of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Well known as a musical composer; edited a "Collection of Sacred Music " in 1860, and "Original Hymn Tunes, Chants, Sentences, and Motets" in 1875. Died at Salem, Mass., August 12, 1885. Ariel Parish, superintendent of the city schools of New Haven, Conn., from 1865 to 1881. Died at Denver, Colo., November 24, 1835, aged 77 years. Cyrus Smith Richards, LL.D., graduate of Dartmouth in 1835; principal of Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, Conn., 1835 to 1871, and of the preparatory school of Howard University, District of Columbia, 1871 to 1885; author of "Latin Lessons and Tables," 1859; "Outlines of Latin Grammar," 1862, aud "Introduction to Cæsar," 1883. Died at Madison, Wis., July 19, 1885, aged 77 years. John Dudley Philbrick, LL. D., D. C. L., chevalier of the legion of honor, officier de l'instruction publique, &c. He was born in Deerfield, N. H., May 27, 1818; attended Pembrook Academy and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1842; taught in Roxbury and Boston, Mass., 1842 to 1852; was principal of the Normal School at New Britain, Conn., 1852 to 1854; State superintendent of common schools for Connecticut, 1855 to 1856; city superintendent in Boston, Mass., 1857 to 1874 and again 1876 to 1878; was a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education for 10 years; a trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1861 to 1886; a trustee of Bates College, Maine, 1873 to 1883; Massachusetts Commissioner to the World's Fairs in Vienna, 1873, and Philadelphia, 1876; United States |