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John Edmands was a descendant of Walter Edmands who emigrated from England and settled in Concord, Massachusetts in 1639, was the son of Jonathan and Lucy (Nourse) Edmands and was born in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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John Edmands was a descendant of Walter Edmands who emigrated from England and settled in Concord, Massachusetts in 1639, was the son of Jonathan and Lucy (Nourse) Edmands and was born in Framingham, Massachusetts.
He lived and worked on a farm, attending the district school for about three months each summer and winter, until about 1836, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter and house-builder.
He was graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1843, and entered Yale College.
During the latter part of his college course he became librarian of the Brothers in Unity, a society in Yale College, and he then prepared a booklet of eight pages, indicating material of assistance to the students in writing or speaking, which was printed in January 1847 under the title, Subjects for Debate, with References to Authorities. This was the beginning from which developed the Index to Periodical Literature compiled by IV. F. Poole, who followed Edmands as iibrarian of the Brothers in Unity. After his graduation in 1847, Edmands spent a year in teaching school in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He then entered the Yale Divinity School, was licensed to preach by the New Haven West Association of Ministers in 1850, and graduated in 1851. In that year he became assistant in the Yale College Library, serving until 1856, when he went to Philadelphia, to become librarian of the Mercantile Library. With this institution he was connected for fifty-nine years. Doubtless it is due to the fact that he was a retiring, modest person that he has never been given full credit for his pioneer work. He was a much better practical librarian than was Poole, who had a wide interest in books but contributed very little to practical librarianship. Edmands devised a system of classification and put it into operation about the same time that Melvil Dewey began work on his decimal classification. Although the use of decimals in the Dewey system proved rather more practical in the expansion of the different classes, and won a wider popularity, which it has maintained to the present, Edmands’s classification has proved satisfactory wherever it has been employed. He prepared for publication book lists that were of great interest, placing under the titles of important additions to the Library criticisms and discussions of the views of the authors.
From time to time he contributed to the Library Journal practical notes collected during his long service. He was a founder of the Central Congregational Church in Philadelphia, in 1864, and was the clerk and one of the deacons from its organization.
He was ninety-five years of age when he died, and had maintained his mental alertness and interest in current affairs until the last. He left in trust for publication the manuscript of a book which was issued posthumously under the title, The Evolution of Congregationalism (1916).
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He was a founder of the Central Congregational Church in Philadelphia, in 1864, and was the clerk and one of the deacons from its organization.
New Haven West Association of Ministers
one of the original members of the American Library Association, founded in Philadelphia in 1876, and the first president of the Pennsylvania Library Club, founded in 1890
Edmands was physically well adapted to his profession; of slight build, with white hair and ruddy cheeks, he moved nimbly but silently in his domain and he had a low voice with clear enunciation.
He was married three times: first, on Aug, 1, 1854, to Abigail Jane Lloyd, who died in January 1883; second, on June 17, 1889, to Ellen Elizabeth Metcalf, who died in July 1892; and third, on Aug. 23, 1893, to Clarinda Augusta Roberts.