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| Thomas Bray | English clergyman in America, colonial library pioneer | 1656 | 1730-02-15 1730 |
Oswestry School |  |
| Benjamin Franklin | American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, diplomat, Founding Father (1706–1790) | 1706-01-17 | 1790-04-17 | homeschooling Boston Latin School |
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| John J. Beckley | Librarian of Congress (1757-1807) | 1757-08-04 | 1807-04-08 | College of William & Mary | |
| Patrick Magruder | Librarian of Congress (1768-1819) | 1768 | 1819-12-24 | Princeton University |  |
| Thomas Jefferson | president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 | 1743-04-13 1743-04-02 |
1826-07-04 | College of William & Mary | (cropped).jpg) |
| George Watterston | Librarian of Congress (1783-1854) | 1783-10-23 | 1854-02-04 | Charlotte Hall Military Academy |  |
| Orville Augustus Roorbach | American bibliographer, publisher, and bookseller; (1803-1861) | 1803-01-20 | 1861-06-21 | ||
| John Silva Meehan | American Librarian of Congress (1790-1863) | 1790-02-06 | 1863-04-24 |  | |
| Alexandre Vattemare | French ventriloquist and philanthropist (1796-1864) | 1796-11-08 | 1864-04-07 |  | |
| Charles Coffin Jewett | American librarian | 1816-08-12 | 1868-01-09 |  | |
| George Ticknor | American academician and Hispanist, 1791-1871 | 1791-08-01 | 1871-01-26 | Dartmouth College University of Göttingen |
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| Joseph Cogswell | American librarian (1786-1871) | 1786-09-27 | 1871-11-26 | Harvard University Phillips Exeter Academy |
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| Joseph Sabin | American bibliographer | 1821-12-09 | 1881-06-05 |  | |
| Samuel Haven | American archaeologist (1806-1881) | 1806-05-28 | 1881-09-05 | Harvard Law School Amherst College Phillips Exeter Academy |
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| John Gould Stephenson | Librarian of Congress | 1828-03-01 | 1883-11-11 1883-11-12 |
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| Ezra Abbot | American librarian and biblical scholar (1819-1884) | 1819-04-28 | 1884-03-21 | Bowdoin College Phillips Exeter Academy |
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| Frederick Leypoldt | German American publisher and bibliographer | 1835-11-17 | 1884-03-31 | .jpg) | |
| Stephen Buttrick Noyes | American librarian, 1833-1885 | 1833-08-28 | 1885-03-08 | Hopkins Classical School Harvard University |
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| John Langdon Sibley | Harvard librarian | 1804-12-29 | 1885-12-09 | Harvard University Harvard Divinity School Phillips Exeter Academy |
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| Henry Hobson Richardson | American architect | 1838-09-29 | 1886-04-27 | Harvard College Tulane University Beaux-Arts de Paris |
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| Lloyd Pearsall Smith | American librarian, publisher, and editor, 1822-1886 | 1822-02-06 | 1886-07-02 | .jpg) | |
| Henry Augustus Homes | American diplomat | 1812-03-10 | 1887-11-03 | Phillips Academy Amherst College Andover Theological Seminary Yale University |
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| Frederic Vinton | American librarian | 1817-10-09 | 1890-01-01 | Amherst College |  |
| Charles Benjamin Norton | American publisher | 1825-07-01 | 1891 |  | |
| Lyman Draper | American historian (1815-1891) | 1815-09-04 | 1891-08-26 |  | |
| William Frederick Poole | American bibliographer and librarian (1821-1894) | 1821-12-24 | 1894-03-01 | Yale University | .jpg) |
| Reuben Brooks Poole | American librarian (1834-1895) | 1834-04-05 | 1895-04-05 | Brown University | .jpg) |
| Justin Winsor | American librarian and historian (1831-1897) | 1831-01-02 | 1897-10-22 | Harvard University Boston Latin School Heidelberg University |
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| John Russell Young | Librarian of Congress | 1840-11-20 | 1899-01-17 |  | |
| Frederic Beecher Perkins | American editor and librarian | 1828-09-27 1828-09-28 |
1899-02-03 |  | |
| Reuben Guild | American historian | 1822-05-04 | 1899-05-13 | Brown University |  |
| Klas August Linderfelt | American librarian | 1847 | 1900-03-18 | Uppsala University |  |
| Hannah Packard James | American librarian (1835-1903) | 1835-09-05 | 1903-04-20 |  | |
| Charles Ammi Cutter | American librarian (1837-1903) | 1837-03-14 | 1903-09-06 | Harvard University Harvard Divinity School |
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| John Eaton | Union Army General and United States Commissioner of Education | 1829-12-05 | 1906-02-09 | Rutgers University Dartmouth College Andover Theological Seminary Thetford Academy |
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| Samuel W. Starks | African-American community leader, first black state librarian in the US | 1866-03-10 | 1908-04-03 | .jpg) | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford | Librarian of Congress (1825-1908) | 1825-09-12 | 1908-08-11 | .jpg) | |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | American educator and academic (1831–1908) | 1831-07-06 | 1908-10-13 | Harvard University Yale College |
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| Charles Follen McKim | American Beaux-Arts architect | 1847-08-24 | 1909-09-14 | Harvard University Beaux-Arts de Paris |
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| Alice B. Kroeger | American librarian | 1864-05-02 | 1909-10-31 |  | |
| William Torrey Harris | American philosopher | 1835-09-10 | 1909-11-05 | Phillips Academy |  |
| Henry Harrisse | Franco-American writer, lawyer, art critic, and historian | 1829-05-28 | 1910-05-13 | University of South Carolina |  |
| Frederick M. Crunden | American librarian | 1847-09-01 | 1911-10-28 | Washington University in St. Louis |  |
| Minerva Sanders | American librarian, 1837-1912 | 1837-02-11 | 1912-03-20 |  | |
| Otis Hall Robinson | American librarian and mathematician | 1835-12-03 | 1912-12-12 | University of Rochester | .jpg) |
| John Shaw Billings | American surgeon, statistician, United States Army officer, designer of New York Public library | 1838-04-12 | 1913-03-11 | Miami University University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
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| Josephus Nelson Larned | American librarian, newspaper editor, and author. | 1836-05-11 | 1913-08-15 |  | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites | American librarian (1853-1913) | 1853-05-15 | 1913-10-22 | Yale University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| Frank A. Hutchins | American librarian (1851–1914) | 1851-03-08 | 1914-01-25 | Beloit College |  |
| Katharine L. Sharp | American librarian | 1865-05-25 1865-05-21 |
1914-06-01 | Northwestern University | .jpg) |
| Bernard R. Green | American civil engineer | 1843-12-28 | 1914-10-22 | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |  |
| John Edmands | American librarian | 1820-02-01 | 1915-10-17 | Yale Divinity School Yale College Phillips Academy |
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| Mary Wright Plummer | former president of the American Library Association (1856-1916) | 1856-03-08 | 1916-09-21 | Columbia University School of Library Service Wellesley College |
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| Henry Munson Utley | librarian | 1836-08-05 | 1917-02-16 | University of Michigan | .jpg) |
| William I. Fletcher | librarian, bibliographer, and indexer who served as the head librarian of Amherst College | 1844-04-23 | 1917-06-15 |  | |
| James L. Gillis | American librarian | 1857-10-03 | 1917-07-27 |  | |
| Alexander J. Rudolph | Austrian-American librarian | 1850 | 1917-08-16 | ||
| Henry Eduard Legler | American librarian (1861-1917) | 1861-06-22 | 1917-09-13 | .jpg) | |
| William Howard Brett | American librarian | 1846-07-01 | 1918-08-24 | University of Michigan |  |
| Samuel Swett Green | American librarian | 1837-02-20 | 1918-12-09 | Harvard Divinity School Harvard University |
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| Raymond Cazallis Davis | American librarian (1836-1919) | 1836-06-23 | 1919-06-10 | University of Michigan |  |
| Charles Henry Gould | librarian | 1855-12-06 | 1919-07-30 | McGill University High School of Montreal |
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| Andrew Carnegie | American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919) | 1835-11-25 | 1919-08-11 |  | |
| Mary Frances Isom | American librarian | 1865-02-27 | 1920-04-15 | Pratt Institute Pratt Institute School of Information |
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| Charles McCarthy | American political scientist and reformer | 1873-06-29 | 1921-03-26 | Brown University University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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| May Seymour | American librarian (1857-1921) | 1857-08-31 | 1921-06-14 | Columbia University Smith College |
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| Mary Cutler Fairchild | American librarian | 1855-06-21 | 1921-12-20 | Mount Holyoke College | .jpg) |
| Addison Van Name | American philologist and librarian | 1835-11-15 | 1922-09-29 |  | |
| Daniel Alexander Payne Murray | American librarian and historian | 1852-03-03 | 1925-12-31 1925-03-31 |
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| Bernard Christian Steiner | American librarian | 1867-08-13 | 1926-01-12 | Yale University Johns Hopkins University |
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| Jacob Schwartz | librarian, Apprentices' library of New York | 1846-03-13 | 1926-03-26 | ||
| Appleton Prentiss Clark Griffin | American bibliographer | 1852-07-24 | 1926-04-16 |  | |
| Caroline Hewins | American librarian | 1846-10-10 | 1926-11-04 | Trinity College Jamaica Plain High School |
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| William Beer | American librarian (1849-1927) | 1849-05-01 | 1927-02-01 | .png) | |
| Electra Collins Doren | suffragette and library scientist | 1861-12-04 | 1927-03-04 |  | |
| James Kendall Hosmer | American academic and librarian | 1834-01-29 | 1927-05-11 | Harvard University |  |
| Azariah Smith Root | librarian | 1862-02-03 | 1927-10-02 | Oberlin College University of Göttingen |
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| Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges | American librarian (1852-1927) | 1852-04-19 | 1927-11-25 | Harvard University | .jpg) |
| Ina Coolbrith | American poet, writer, and librarian | 1841-03-10 | 1928-02-29 |  | |
| Oscar Sonneck | U.S. librarian, editor, and musicologist | 1873-10-06 | 1928-10-30 | Heidelberg University |  |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis | American historian, photographer, and activist | 1859-03-01 | 1928-11-24 1928-11-25 1928 |
Harvard University |  |
| Henry James Carr | American librarian | 1849-08-16 | 1929-05-21 | University of Michigan Law School |  |
| John Cotton Dana | American librarian and museum director (1856-1929) | 1856-08-19 | 1929-07-21 | Dartmouth College |  |
| Thomas Lynch Montgomery | American librarian | 1862-03-04 | 1929-10-01 | University of Pennsylvania |  |
| Edward Christopher Williams | American librarian | 1871-02-11 | 1929-12-29 1929-12-24 |
Case Western Reserve University |  |
| William Eaton Foster | American librarian | 1851-06-02 | 1930-09-10 | Brown University |  |
| Clement Walker Andrews | American librarian | 1858-01-13 | 1930-11-20 1930 |
Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| William Coolidge Lane | American librarian (1859-1931) | 1859-07-29 | 1931-03-18 | Harvard University |  |
| Walter Lewis Brown | American librarian | 1861-01-04 | 1931-10-16 | .jpg) | |
| Charles F. D. Belden | American librarian (1870-1931) | 1870-10-05 | 1931-10-24 | Harvard Law School Harvard University |
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| Melvil Dewey | American librarian | 1851-12-10 | 1931-12-26 | Amherst College Alfred University |
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| Sarah C. N. Bogle | American librarian | 1870-11-17 | 1932-01-11 | University of Chicago Drexel University |
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| Mary Lemist Titcomb | American librarian (1852-1932) | 1852-05-16 | 1932-06-05 |  | |
| Theresa Elmendorf | American librarian (1855-1932) | 1855-11-01 | 1932-09-04 | .jpg) | |
| Edward Lippincott Tilton | American architect (1861-1933) | 1861-10-19 | 1933-01-05 | École des Beaux-Arts |  |
| Charles Alexander Nelson | American librarian (1839-1933) | 1839-04-14 | 1933-01-13 | Harvard University Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
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| Richard Rogers Bowker | American publisher, editor, journalist | 1848-09-04 | 1933-11-12 | .jpg) | |
| Minnie Earl Sears | American librarian | 1873-11-17 | 1933-11-28 | University of Illinois system Purdue University |
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| Walter Stanley Biscoe | American librarian | 1853-02-14 | 1933-12-22 |  | |
| James Bertram | Personal secretary of Andrew Carnegie | 1872-03-17 | 1934-10-23 | Stewart's Melville College |  |
| Marie L. Shedlock | British writer (1854-1935) | 1854-05-05 | 1935-01-17 | .jpg) | |
| Charles Evans | American librarian and bibliographer (1850–1935) | 1850-11-13 | 1935-02-08 |  | |
| Thomas Fountain Blue | American librarian | 1866-03-06 | 1935-11-10 | Hampton University Richmond Theological Institute |
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| Frederick Winthrop Faxon | American publisher | 1866-08-24 | 1936 | Boston Latin School Harvard University |
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| George E. Wire | American librarian | 1859-02-06 | 1936-02-23 | Feinberg School of Medicine | |
| Caroline Burnite Walker | American librarian (1875-1936) | 1875-01-12 | 1936-11-02 | .jpg) | |
| Herman H. B. Meyer | librarian (1864-1937) | 1864-10-17 | 1937-01-16 | Pratt Institute Pratt Institute School of Information |
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| George Locke | Canadian librarian | 1870-03-29 | 1937-01-28 | University of Toronto |  |
| Edmund Pearson | American librarian, non-fiction crime writer | 1880-02-11 | 1937-08-08 | Harvard University New York State Library School Harvard College |
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| Wilberforce Eames | American bibliographer and librarian | 1855-10-12 | 1937-12-06 |  | |
| Mary Eileen Ahern | American librarian (1860-1938) | 1860-10-01 | 1938-05-22 | Canterbury College Illinois Institute of Technology |
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| Arturo Alfonso Schomburg | Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist | 1874-01-24 | 1938-06-10 |  | |
| Jennie Dorcas Fellows | American librarian | 1873-04-04 | 1938-10-10 | ||
| Ernest Cushing Richardson | United States librarian, theologian and scholar | 1860-02-09 | 1939-06-29 | Amherst College Hartford International University for Religion and Peace |
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| Donald B. Gilchrist | American librarian (1892-1939) | 1892-01-11 | 1939-08-04 | Dartmouth College New York State Library School |
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| George Watson Cole | American librarian and bibliographer | 1850-09-06 | 1939-10-10 | .jpg) | |
| Cyrus Adler | Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader | 1863-09-13 | 1940-04-07 | Johns Hopkins University University of Pennsylvania |
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| C. C. Certain | American educator | 1885 | 1940-12-18 | Auburn University Columbia University |
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| Paul J. Foik | Canadian-American librarian (1880-1941) | 1879-08-14 1880 1880-08-14 |
1941-03-01 | University of Notre Dame | .jpg) |
| Theodore Wesley Koch | American librarian | 1871-08-04 | 1941-03-23 | University of Pennsylvania Harvard University |
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| Josephine Adams Rathbone | American librarian | 1864-09-10 | 1941-05-17 | University of Michigan | ,_1931.jpg) |
| Frank Pierce Hill | American librarian (1855–1941) | 1855-08-22 | 1941-08-25 | Dartmouth College |  |
| Arthur Elmore Bostwick | United States librarian and author | 1860-03-08 | 1942-02-13 | Yale University |  |
| Sarah B. Askew | American public librarian | 1877-02-15 | 1942-10-20 | Pratt Institute Pratt Institute School of Information |
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| Frederick Paul Keppel | Educator and philanthropist | 1875-07-02 | 1943-09-08 | Columbia University |  |
| J. C. M. Hanson | Norwegian-American librarian | 1864-03-13 | 1943-11-08 | Luther College Concordia Seminary Cornell University |
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| Lutie E. Stearns | American librarian | 1866-09-12 1866-09-13 |
1943-12-25 | Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee |  |
| Alice S. Tyler | American librarian and advocate (1859-1944) | 1859-04-27 | 1944-04-18 | Illinois Institute of Technology | .jpg) |
| Douglas Crawford McMurtrie | typeface designer | 1888-07-20 | 1944-09-29 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  |
| Florence R. Curtis | American librarian | 1873-09-30 | 1944-10-06 | Wells College New York State Library School University of Minnesota University of Illinois system |
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| Jennie Maas Flexner | American librarian | 1882-11-06 | 1944-11-17 | ||
| Aksel Josephson | Swedish librarian | 1860-10-02 | 1944-12-12 | New York State Library School |  |
| Julia Ideson | first head librarian of the Houston Public Library in Houston, Texas | 1880-07-15 | 1945 |  | |
| Charles Martel | Swiss-American librarian (1860–1945) | 1860-03-05 | 1945-05-15 |  | |
| Frank Keller Walter | American librarian | 1874-07-23 | 1945-10-28 |  | |
| George Burwell Utley | American librarian (1876-1946) | 1876-12-03 | 1946-10-04 | Brown University Colgate University Vermont Academy |
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| Edwin H. Anderson | American library leader (1861-1947) | 1861-09-27 | 1947-04-29 | Wabash College |  |
| Beatrice Winser | American librarian (1869-1947) | 1869-03-11 | 1947-09-14 | Columbia University School of Library Service | |
| Charles Ripley Gillett | American librarian | 1855-11-27 | 1948 | New York University Humboldt University of Berlin |
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| Judson Toll Jennings | librarian (1872-1948) | 1872-09-24 | 1948-02-08 |  | |
| John Edward Goodwin | American librarian (1876-1948) | 1876-10-01 | 1948-11-18 | University of Wisconsin–Madison New York State Library School |
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| Mary E. Hazeltine | American librarian | 1868-05-05 | 1949-06-17 | Wellesley College |  |
| Thorvald Solberg | First Registrar of Copyrights (1852–1949) | 1852-04-22 | 1949-07-15 |  | |
| Matthew S. Dudgeon | American politician | 1871-06-18 | 1949-07-26 | Baker University |  |
| William Setchel Learned | American educator | 1876-06-05 | 1950-01-03 | Brown University Harvard University |
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| Belle da Costa Greene | American librarian (1883-1950) | 1883-12-13 1879 |
1950-05-10 1950 |
Northfield Mount Hermon School |  |
| Charles Knowles Bolton | American librarian | 1867-11-14 1867 |
1950-05-19 1950 |
East Technical High School Harvard University |
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| Franklin F. Hopper | American librarian (1878-1950) | 1878-09-17 | 1950-11-29 | Princeton University Pratt Institute |
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| Randolph Greenfield Adams | American librarian and historian | 1892-11-07 | 1951-01-04 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| James Thayer Gerould | American librarian | 1872-10-03 | 1951-06-08 | Cushing Academy Dartmouth College |
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| Harrison Warwick Craver | American librarian | 1875-08-10 | 1951-07-26 | Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology | .jpg) |
| Sydney B. Mitchell | Canadian librarian | 1878-06-24 | 1951-09-22 | McGill University | |
| Adam Strohm | American librarian | 1870-02-16 | 1951-10-30 | Uppsala University University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
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| George Parker Winship | American librarian (1871-1952) | 1871-07-29 | 1952-06-22 | Harvard University | .jpg) |
| Victor Hugo Paltsits | American librarian (1867-1952) | 1867-07-12 | 1952-10-03 |  | |
| Andrew Keogh | English-born American librarian | 1869-11-14 | 1953-02-13 | Yale University |  |
| Gratia Countryman | librarian | 1866-11-26 | 1953-07-26 | University of Minnesota |  |
| Adelaide Hasse | American librarian | 1868-09-13 | 1953-07-29 1953-07-28 |
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| H. W. Wilson | American publisher (1868-1954) | 1868-05-12 | 1954-03-01 | University of Minnesota Beloit College |
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| Miriam D. Tompkins | American librarian (1892-1954) | 1892-04-02 | 1954-03-02 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | _(cropped).gif) |
| Milton J. Ferguson | American librarian (1879-1954) | 1879-04-11 | 1954-10-23 | University of Oklahoma |  |
| William Warner Bishop | American librarian (1871-1955) | 1871-07-20 | 1955-02-19 | University of Michigan | .jpg) |
| Lillian Baker Griggs | American librarian (1876-1955) | 1876-01-08 | 1955-04-11 |  | |
| Henry Evelyn Bliss | American librarian | 1870-01-29 | 1955-08-09 | ||
| Herbert Putnam | American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955) | 1861-09-20 | 1955-08-14 | Harvard University Columbia University Columbia Law School |
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| Herbert Simon Hirshberg | American librarian (1879-1955) | 1879-07-07 | 1955-09-15 | Harvard University Brookline High School Amherst College |
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| James Ingersoll Wyer | librarian (1869-1955) | 1869-05-14 | 1955-11-01 | .jpg) | |
| Winifred Gregory Gerould | American librarian (1885-1955) | 1885 | 1955-12-10 | ||
| Hiller Crowell Wellman | American librarian (1871-1956) | 1871-03-02 | 1956-02-03 | .jpg) | |
| Nathan Van Patten | American librarian (1887-1956) | 1887-03-24 | 1956-03-17 | ||
| Charles Wesley Smith | American librarian (1877-1956) | 1877-06-20 | 1956-07-05 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | |
| Carl B. Roden | librarian | 1871-06-07 | 1956-10-25 |  | |
| Mary E. Hall | American librarian (1874-1956) | 1874-03-01 | 1956-11-07 | Oberlin College Pratt Institute |
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| Cornelia Marvin Pierce | American librarian | 1873-12-26 | 1957-02-13 1957-02-12 |
Armour Institute of Technology |  |
| Isadore Gilbert Mudge | American librarian | 1875-03-14 | 1957-05-16 | Cornell University New York State Library School |
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| Charles E. Rush | American librarian (1885-1958) | 1885-03-23 | 1958-01-31 | Earlham College University of Wisconsin–Madison New York State Library School |
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| Sadie Peterson Delaney | American librarian | 1889-02-26 | 1958-05-04 | City College of New York |  |
| David Judson Haykin | Russian-American librarian (1896-1958) | 1896-01-18 | 1958-05-04 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln New York State Library School |
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| Chalmers Hadley | librarian | 1872-09-03 | 1958-05-11 | Earlham College New York State Library School |
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| Clara Whitehill Hunt | American librarian | 1871 | 1958-07-11 | New York State Library School | |
| Althea Warren | director of the Los Angeles Public Library, president of the American Library Association | 1866-12-18 | 1958-12-19 | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago |
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| Margaret Elizabeth Egan | American librarian (1905–1959) | 1905-03-14 | 1959-01-26 | ||
| Martha Pritchard | American librarian (1882-1959) | 1882-05-02 | 1959-02-03 | ||
| Susan Dart Butler | American librarian | 1888 | 1959-06-24 | Atlanta University Center Hampton University |
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| Charles Harvey Brown | American librarian (1875–1960) | 1882-11-15 | 1960-01-19 | Wesleyan University |  |
| Carleton B. Joeckel | American librarian | 1886-01-02 | 1960-04-15 | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Michigan University of Chicago University of Chicago Graduate Library School |
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| Harry M. Lydenberg | American librarian, book conservationist, lecturer, author | 1874-11-18 | 1960-04-16 | Harvard University | .jpg) |
| George F. Bowerman | American librarian | 1868-09-08 | 1960-08-06 |  | |
| Margaret Mann | American library science pioneer (1873-1960) | 1873-04-09 | 1960-08-22 | Illinois Institute of Technology |  |
| Asa Don Dickinson | American librarian (1876-1960) | 1876-05-15 | 1960-11-14 | Brooklyn Latin School Columbia Law School New York State Library School |
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| Margaret Hutchins | 1884–1961, librarian and professor | 1884-09-21 | 1961-01-04 | Smith College |  |
| Anne Carroll Moore | American writer | 1871-07-12 | 1961-01-20 | Pratt Institute |  |
| Robert D. Leigh | birth/death: 1890- or b. 1890 LCAuth[no2003096925] VIAF[47287970] | 1890-09-13 | 1961-01-31 |  | |
| Julia Wright Merrill | American librarian | 1881-09-11 | 1961-02-05 |  | |
| Angus Snead Macdonald | American businessman | 1883-11-07 | 1961-02-21 | ||
| Ernestine Rose | American librarian | 1880-03-19 | 1961-03-28 | Wesleyan University |  |
| Helen E. Haines | American librarian (1872-1961) | 1872-02-09 | 1961-08-26 |  | |
| Mabel R. Gillis | American librarian (1882-1961) | 1882-09-24 | 1961-09-06 | University of California |  |
| Marilla Waite Freeman | American librarian (1871-1961) | 1871-02-21 | 1961-10-29 | University of Chicago | .png) |
| Charles Bunsen Shaw | American librarian | 1894-06-05 | 1962-01-28 | Clark University | |
| Jens Christian Bay | Danish-American writer and librarian | 1871-10-12 | 1962-04-11 | University of Copenhagen |  |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson | Author, anthologist, and librarian | 1872-11-09 | 1962-05-13 | Princeton University |  |
| Lucile Foster Fargo | American librarian | 1880-10-18 | 1962-07-05 | University of Sioux Falls Yankton College Whitman College New York State Library School |
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| Francis Lee Dewey Goodrich | American librarian (1877-1962) | 1877-01-17 | 1962-07-27 | Eastern Michigan University University of Michigan New York State Library School |
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| Frank Weitenkampf | United States print connoisseur | 1866-04-13 | 1962-08-23 |  | |
| Fremont Rider | American genealogist | 1885-05-25 | 1962-10-26 | Syracuse University Wesleyan University |
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| Edith M. Coulter | American librarian | 1880-10-30 | 1963-01-27 | Stanford University | |
| Frederic G. Melcher | American publisher | 1879-04-12 | 1963-03-09 |  | |
| Frances Jenkins Olcott | American children's librarian and writer | 1872 | 1963-03-29 | New York State Library School | |
| Linda Eastman | American librarian | 1867-07-17 | 1963-04-05 | .jpg) | |
| Anita Hostetter | American librarian (1889-1963) | 1889-10-18 | 1963-05-02 | University of Denver University of Kansas University of Illinois system University of Chicago |
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| Clarence S. Brigham | American librarian | 1877-08-05 | 1963-08-13 | .jpg) | |
| Carl H. Milam | American librarian (1884-1963) | 1884-10-22 | 1963-08-23 | University of Oklahoma |  |
| McKendree Llewellyn Raney | American librarian | 1887-02-28 | 1964-03-26 | Centre College Johns Hopkins University |
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| Hans Peter Luhn | German-American computer scientist (1896-1964) | 1896-07-01 | 1964-08-19 | ||
| George Sherman Dickinson | American music professor and librarian (1888-1964) | 1888-02-09 | 1964-11-06 | .jpg) | |
| Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen | American librarian and classical scholar (1885-1965) | 1885-12-25 | 1965-01-06 | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | |
| Charles C. Williamson | American librarian (1877-1965) | 1877-01-26 | 1965-01-11 | University of Wisconsin–Madison Case Western Reserve University |
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| Earl Gregg Swem | American librarian | 1870-12-29 | 1965-04-14 | Lafayette College | |
| Phineas Lawrence Windsor | American librarian | 1871-02-21 | 1965-09-02 | Northwestern University |  |
| Mortimer Taube | American librarian | 1910-12-06 | 1965-09-03 | University of Chicago University of California, Berkeley Harvard University |
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| Eileen R. Cunningham | American librarian | 1894-03-28 | 1965-09-21 | Johns Hopkins University | |
| Elva Sophronia Smith | American children's librarian, 1871-1965 | 1871-04-28 | 1965-10-26 | Johnson State College | |
| Harriet E. Howe | American librarian | 1881-12-10 | 1965-12-05 | University of Illinois system Harvard University |
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| Malcolm Glenn Wyer | librarian | 1877-08-21 | 1965-12-31 | University of Minnesota | .jpg) |
| Ruth Savord | librarian | 1894-11-02 | 1966-02-25 | Case Western Reserve University | .jpg) |
| Charles H. Compton | librarian (1880-1966) | 1880-10-24 | 1966-03-17 | ||
| R. W. G. Vail | American librarian, 1890-1966 | 1890-03-26 | 1966-06-21 | Cornell University |  |
| Bessie Graham | American librarian | 1881 | 1966-09-02 | Bryn Mawr College Drexel University |
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| Otto Kinkeldey | American music academic (1878-1966) | 1878-11-27 | 1966-09-19 | Berlin University of the Arts | .jpg) |
| Evan J. Crane | American chemist | 1889-02-14 | 1966-12-30 | Ohio State University | |
| John Edward Fogarty | American politician (1913-1967) | 1913-03-23 | 1967-01-10 | Providence College primary school La Salle Academy, Providence |
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| Esther J. Piercy | American librarian and cataloger | 1905-06-15 | 1967-01-10 | University of Idaho | |
| Alice Harrison | American librarian | 1882-02-21 | 1967-01-26 | University of Texas at Austin University of Illinois system Columbia University |
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| Flora Belle Ludington | American librarian and author | 1898-11-12 | 1967-03-23 | University of Washington Mills College at Northeastern New York State Library School |
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| Harriet Dorothea MacPherson | American librarian | 1892-06-11 | 1967-03-26 | .jpg) | |
| Paul North Rice | American librarian (1888-1967) | 1888-02-08 | 1967-04-16 | Wesleyan University | |
| Julia Pettee | American librarian | 1872-08-23 | 1967-05-30 |  | |
| John Hall Jacobs | American librarian | 1905-11-27 | 1967-07-27 | ||
| Hannah Logasa | American librarian | 1879-02-22 | 1967-12-11 |  | |
| Ralph Theodore Esterquest | American librarian | 1912-05-06 | 1968 | ||
| Stanley Pargellis | American historian and librarian | 1898-06-25 | 1968-01-06 | Harvard Law School University of Nevada, Reno |
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| Margery Closey Quigley | American librarian (1886-1968) | 1886-09-16 | 1968-04-17 | Vassar College | .jpg) |
| Margaret Scoggin | American librarian | 1905-04-14 | 1968-07-11 | Harvard University Radcliffe College University of London |
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| Rudolph Hjalmar Gjelsness | American librarian and literary translator (1894-1968) | 1894-10-18 | 1968-08-16 | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University of North Dakota |
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| Miles O. Price | American librarian, 1890-1968 | 1890-07-31 | 1968-08-18 | University of Chicago | .jpg) |
| George Flint Purdy | born 1905; died 1969 | 1905-09-02 | 1969 | University of Northern Iowa | |
| Robert M. Lester | born 1889; died 1969; Sec. of Carnegie Corp. of New York | 1889-11-07 | 1969-02-21 | ||
| Esther LaVerne Stallmann | American librarian | 1903-09-29 | 1969-03-18 1969-03-19 |
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| William Stetson Merrill | American librarian | 1886-01-16 | 1969-04-04 | Harvard University | |
| May Hill Arbuthnot | American educator and writer (1884-1969) | 1884-08-27 | 1969-10-02 | University of Chicago Columbia University |
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| Effie Louise Power | American librarian | 1873-02-12 | 1969-10-08 | .jpg) | |
| Richard H. Shoemaker | American librarian (1907-1970) | 1907-04-05 | 1970 | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Mary Peacock Douglas | American librarian (1903-1970) | 1903-02-08 | 1970-01-29 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro Columbia University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| LeRoy C. Merritt | American librarian | 1912-09-10 | 1970-05-22 | ||
| Ralph M. Dunbar | American librarian | 1890-07-07 | 1970-06-08 | .jpg) | |
| William Herman Jesse | American librarian (1908-1970) | 1908-09-16 | 1970-07-01 | ||
| Joseph L. Wheeler | American librarian | 1884-03-16 | 1970-12-03 | Brown University |  |
| Lawrence C. Wroth | author, librarian, research professor | 1884-01-14 | 1970-12-25 | Johns Hopkins University | .jpg) |
| John H. Moriarty | American librarian | 1903-11-09 | 1971-02-13 | ||
| Anne Thaxter Eaton | American children's librarian (1881-1971) | 1881-05-08 | 1971-05-05 | Smith College New York State Library School |
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| Walter H. Kaiser | American librarian | 1910-02-27 | 1971-05-10 | ||
| Alvin Saunders Johnson | United States economist | 1874-12-18 | 1971-06-07 1971-07-07 |
Columbia University University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
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| Francis R. St. John | American librarian | 1908-06-16 | 1971-07-19 | Amherst College Columbia University School of Library Service |
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| Ena L. Yonge | American librarian | 1895-04-01 | 1971-12-31 | Barnard College | |
| Ervin H. Pollack | American librarian | 1913-04-19 | 1972 1972-06-09 |
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| Verner W. Clapp | American librarian | 1901-06-03 | 1972-06-15 | Harvard University Trinity College |
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| Lucile M. Morsch | American librarian | 1906-01-21 | 1972-07-03 | Columbia University School of Library Service | |
| Donald Goddard Wing | American librarian | 1904-08-18 | 1972-10-08 | Harvard University Yale University Trinity College |
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| Ralph R. Shaw | American librarian and publisher (1907-1972) | 1907-05-18 | 1972-10-14 | University of Chicago Case Western Reserve University Columbia University School of Library Service University of Chicago Graduate Library School |
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| Patricia B. Knapp | American librarian | 1914-12-31 | 1972-11-19 | Hyde Park Academy High School University of Chicago |
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| Arthur Monroe McAnally | librarian | 1911-01-11 | 1972-11-30 | ||
| Essae Martha Culver | American librarian (1882-1973) | 1882-11-15 | 1973-01-03 | Pomona College |  |
| Harold Walton Tucker | American librarian | 1915-03-24 | 1973-04-03 | ||
| Arna Bontemps | American poet, novelist | 1902-10-13 | 1973-06-04 | University of Chicago Pacific Union College |
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| Alfred Morton Githens | American architect (1876-1973) | 1876-08-25 | 1973-08 | University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts École des Beaux-Arts |
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| Rachel Schenk | American librarian | 1899-02-24 | 1973-09-21 | College of Wooster Kent State University Purdue University |
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| John Boynton Kaiser | born 1887; died 1973 | 1887-01-01 | 1973-09-30 | ||
| Donald Coney | American librarian (1901-1973) | 1901-02-21 | 1973-10-02 | ||
| David Horace Clift | American librarian | 1907-06-16 | 1973-10-12 | University of Kentucky Columbia University School of Library Service |
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| Clifford Kenyon Shipton | American archivist and historian | 1902-08-05 | 1973-12-04 | Harvard University |  |
| William Wayne Shirley | American librarian | 1900-01-12 | 1973-12-25 | Dartmouth College | .jpg) |
| Clarence Edgar Sherman | American librarian | 1887-01-14 | 1974-02-13 | Trinity College | .jpg) |
| Bill M. Woods | American librarian (1924-1974) | 1924-05-24 | 1974-05-01 | ||
| Anne Morris Boyd | American librarian (1884-1974) | 1884-01-13 | 1974-10-24 | University of Kentucky Millikin University University of Illinois system |
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| Alice Brooks McGuire | American professor of library science; librarian | 1902-08-09 | 1975 | University of Chicago | .jpg) |
| Ralph Munn | American librarian (1894-1975) | 1894-09-19 | 1975-01-02 | University of Denver |  |
| Sidney Herbert Ditzion | American historian, sociologist, and librarian (1908-1975) | 1908-11-23 | 1975-06-30 | City College of New York Columbia University |
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| Paul S. Dunkin | American librarian | 1905-09-28 | 1975-08-25 | University of Illinois system DePauw University |
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| Bertha Margaret Frick | American librarian | 1894-01-04 | 1975-10-21 | Grinnell College Iowa State University University of Colorado Columbia University |
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| Leon Carnovsky | American librarian (1903-1975) | 1903-11-28 | 1975-12-06 | University of Chicago University of Chicago Graduate Library School University of Missouri |
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| Mary U. Rothrock | American librarian | 1890-09-19 | 1976-01-30 | Vanderbilt University | .jpg) |
| Allie Beth Martin | American librarian (1914-1976) | 1914-06-28 | 1976-04-11 | Columbia University Lyon College Peabody College Columbia University School of Library Service |
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