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Boston Public Library First Founders of the Boston Public Library Guides to the Library |
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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. |
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EDWARD EVERETT Trustee of the Library, 1852-1864. President of the Board, 1852-1864. Born, Dorchester (Mass.), April 11, 1794; died, Boston, January 15, 1865. Harvard College, class of 1811; clergyman, Boston, 1813; appointed Professor of Greek at Harvard, 1814; Representative in Congress, 1825-1835; Governor of Massachusetts, 1836-1839; Minister to Great Britain, 1840-1845; President of Harvard College, 1846-1849; Secretary of State (U.S.), 1852; Senate (U.S.), 1853-1854. |
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NICHOLAS MARIE
ALEXANDRE VATTEMARE Advocate of the establishment of a public library in Boston. Born in Paris near the close of the eighteenth century. In early life, a student of surgery with some army practice in that profession. Of wide European reputation as a ventriloquist and minor theatrical performer. After 1827 devoted his time and private fortune to the promotion of a system of international exchange of books, and in this connection advocated the establishment of free public libraries and museums in all countries. |
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JOSHUA BATES Liberal benefactor of the Library. Made two generous gifts of $50,000. Born Weymouth (Massachusetts), 1788; died London (England), September 24, 1864. Financier; partner in Baring Brothers & Co. Joshua Bates's Original Letter to Mayor Seaver, October 1, 1852 |
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JOSIAH QUINCY, JR. Mayor of Boston, December 1845-January 1849. Born 1802, died 1888. Believed in Vattemare's plan so thoroughly that he made the first cash gift to the Library-the sum of $5,000. He made the gift anonymously with the condition that "$10,000 be raised at large for the same purpose and that the library should be as fully used by all, as may be consistent with the safe-keeping of the property." |
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