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| About the Library > Library History | |
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Library History - Library Directors |
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Annual reports from 1880, when the present library was incorporated, were obviously typed from handwritten records long after the events–and the handwritten records are gone. The following reconstruction of library directors or head librarians is the best that can be pieced together from the conflicting records. |
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| Library Directors | |
1872 - 1881 Sarah Pearson 1881 - 1889 Leila McKay 1889 - 1890 H. A. Farmer 1890 - 1898 Julia Hitchcock 1898 - 1901 Minnie E. Gibson 1902 - 1914 Anna Louise Morse (First Librarian) 1914 - 1915 Fannie A. Smith (Mrs. Franklin Powers) 1915 - 1926 Joseph L. Wheeler 1921 - 1922 Anna M. Tarr ("Acting Director" while Wheeler on leave of absence) Also "Acting Director" June - September 1926 1926 - 1944 Clarence W. Sumner 1944 - 1964 James C. Foutts ("Acting Director" 1944 - 1945) Named librarian November 17, 1945 1965 - 1979 David W. Griffith 1979 - 1989 Robert H. Donahugh 1989-1997 Theresa A. Trucksis 1997-Present Carlton A. Sears |
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