Background
Clemons, Harry was born on September 9, 1879 in Corry, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry Dwight and Harriet Eliza (Barber) Clemons.
Clemons, Harry was born on September 9, 1879 in Corry, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry Dwight and Harriet Eliza (Barber) Clemons.
Bachelor of Arts, Wesleyan University, 1902. Post-graduate study same university, 1902-1903, A.M., 1905, Doctor of Letters, 1942. Scribner fellow, Princeton University, 1903-1904, A.M., 1905.
Jacobus fellow of Princeton at Oxford University, England, 1906-1907. Studied School of Library Service, Columbia, 1927.
Began as assistant in library, Wesleyan University, 1902-1903. Instructor in English, Princeton, 1904-1906, 1907-1908. Reference librarian, same, 1908-1913.
Professor English, University of Nanking, China, 1913-1920, librarian, 1914-1927. Librarian, University of Virginia, 1927-1950, consultant library resources, 1950-1957, librarian emeritus, after 1957. Honorary trustee Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation Official representative American Library Association in charge library war service, American Expeditionary Force, Siberia, 1918-1919.
Special cataloguer Chinese section, Library of Congress, 1922.
Member Virginia State Board for Certification of Librarians, 1936-1948. Member American Library Association, Virginia Library Association (president 1931-1932), Raven Society, Phi Beta Kappa. Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon, Psi Upsilon.
Clubs: Colonade, Farmington Country. Wrote An Essay Towards a Bibliography of the Published Writings and Addresses of Woodrow Wilson (1875-1910), 1913.
Married Jeannie Cooper Jenkins, May 21, 1918. Children: Henry Jenkins (lieutenant Army Air Corps, died July 31, 1943), Emily Barber (Mistress George Southall Vest).