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John Langdon Sibley was born on December 29, 1804 in Union, Maine, the eldest child of Dr. Jonathan and Persis (Morse) Sibley.
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The town of Union is in Lincoln County and is twenty-eight miles east-south-east of Augusta and eight miles from the head of the tidewaters of St. George’s River at Warren. For more than a century, the French and the English alternately claimed jurisdiction over this territory. The first Europeans, who located themselves in town, probably arrived in September or October of 1772. Archibald Anderson and James Anderson, from the part of Warren called Stirling; James Malcom, from Cushing; and John Crawford, from the upper part of Warren Village, ascended St. George’s River to “take up” land. This book tells the reader the history of Union, Maine from the first settlers to the time of the book’s first publication in 1851. Topics of interest include: geography; ante-plantation history and plantation history; incorporation (1786) and settlers after the incorporation; population; mineral and arboreal products; agricultural and horticultural products; manufactures and trade; highways and bridges; superstitions; municipal history; the first meeting house; and an overview of ecclesiastical, political, financial, educational, military, and zoological matters. Also included is a family register, pertaining to residents before the year 1800 and to their families and descendants. Families are listed alphabetically. The original full-name plus subject index is also included.
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John Langdon Sibley was born on December 29, 1804 in Union, Maine, the eldest child of Dr. Jonathan and Persis (Morse) Sibley.
After studying two years at Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered Harvard, where he partly supported himself by working in the library. On his graduation in 1825 he was appointed assistant librarian at an annual salary of $150. Resigning at the end of a year to continue studying for the ministry, he graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828.
He became pastor of the church in Stow, Massachussets, where he was ordained in 1829.
In 1833 he returned to Cambridge to devote himself to various literary pursuits and for three years edited the American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge, an illustrated monthly journal.
In March 1841, just before the removal of the Harvard College Library to Gore Hall, he was reappointed assistant librarian; fifteen years later he became librarian, succeeding Thaddeus William Harris.
At the beginning of his long term of service in the library the number of volumes was about 41, 000 and the annual income from invested funds $250; when he retired in 1877 the number of books had increased to 164, 000 and the investments to $170, 000.
According to Sibley himself, he made so many pleas for gifts of books that he "acquired the name of being a sturdy beggar, " and there must have been many a book-hunting expedition like that of November 18, 1862, recorded in the "Librarian's Diary, " a detailed account of the work of the library which he kept with care for years, when he "spent four hours with a lantern and cloak in the chilly cellar and found many things not in the College Library".
Gore Hall, which had been confidently expected to hold the accessions for the rest of the century, became inadequate, and in the last year of his librarianship, a large addition was erected which contained a book stack of six floors, said to be the first example of this familiar form of library architecture.
But Sibley's service to the library was by no means confined to fostering its accessions; he introduced many administrative improvements and in every way made the books more accessible. Though at the beginning of his term the public could use only the printed catalogue of 1830, in 1861 there was begun a public card catalogue, indexed according to author and subject, in which there were introduced for the first time many features later in common use.
Although he had scant sympathy for the desultory reader and has usually been pictured as a typical example of the old-style librarian, only interested in increasing his hoard of books and in protecting them from the profane touch of the reader's hands, he gave generous help to the genuinely serious seeker after knowledge and freely granted access to the alcoves, a most unusual privilege in those days. Failing eyesight finally obliged him to resign, but he continued with his most important literary work, his Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, covering the lives of graduates through the class of 1689.
He left to the Massachusetts Historical Society his accumulated material for later classes and a fund for the continuation of the work. He also published A History of the Town of Union, Maine (1851). During his librarianship he prepared twelve triennial catalogues of Harvard, 1842-75, and one quinquennial catalogue, 1880, and for twenty years, 1850-70, edited the annual catalogues.
He was also an occasional contributor to magazines and to the publications of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
He died after a long illness, survived by his wife.
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He married on May 20, 1866, Charlotte Augusta Langdon Cook, daughter of Samuel Cook, a Boston merchant, with whom he lived in great happiness.