Background
Dickinson, Asa Don was born on May 15, 1876 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Asa De Zeng and Harriet Sprague (Hyde) Dickinson.
Dickinson, Asa Don was born on May 15, 1876 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Asa De Zeng and Harriet Sprague (Hyde) Dickinson.
Student Brooklyn Latin School. Columbia Law School; State Library School, Albany, New York.
Chlidren—Asa, Elizabeth Winslow, Helen Hyde. On staff Brooklyn Public Library, 1903-1906. Librarian, Union College Library, Schenectady, 1906-1907, Leavenworth (Kansas) Free Public Library, 1907-1910.
Librarian, Washington State College Library, 1910-1912. Editorial staff, Doubleday, Page & Company, publications, New York, 1912-1915 and 1916-1918. In war service of American Library Association, at Hoboken, New Jersey, and Paris, France, 1918-1919.
Librarian University of Pennsylvania, 1919-1931, Brooklyn College, 1931-1944. Retired September 1, 1944. Managing editor Doubleday’s Encyclopedia, 10 vols., 1930.
Organized Punjab libraries for Government of India, 1915-1916. Planned Brooklyn College’s new library building, 1936.
Fellow American Library Association.
Married Helen Winslow, June 6, 1908.
