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Lloyd Pearsall was born on February 6, 1822 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the eldest child of John Jay Smith and Rachel Collins (Pearsall) Smith.
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Symbolism and Science: A Paper Read Before the Germantown Science and Art Club (Classic Reprint)
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Address Delivered at Haverford College
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Lloyd Pearsall Smith
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After his graduation from Haverford College in 1837, he was placed in the counting house of Walm & Leaming, importers, to learn the business.
Career
In 1845 he began publishing Smith's Weekly Volume, edited by his father, a successor of Waldie's Select Circulating Library. This publication continued until the spring of 1846, and during part of this period young Smith also published The Medical Library and some law books. In 1847 he issued A Plan of the District of Spring Garden, Philadelphia.
He became assistant librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1849, of which his father was librarian, and two years later succeeded him. With this ancient library, founded by Franklin and his friends, he remained identified until his death. Under his direction the third volume of Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia was issued in 1856, for which work he supplied a copious index.
When the Confederate forces invaded Pennsylvania in 1863, Smith enlisted for three months in a volunteer regiment, and closing the library, went forth to the defense of Gettysburg. During the war, he also joined with others in collecting money for the relief of those in East Tennessee who remained loyal to the Union, and published a report of a commission that was sent there to investigate conditions. He was the first editor of Lippincott's Magazine, conducting that periodical from January 1868 to December 1869. Under his editorship the magazine published Anthony Trollope's novel, "The Vicar of Bullhampton"; one by Robert Dale Owen, "Beyond the Breakers"; also contributions from Bayard Taylor and from George H. Boker.
In 1876 he contributed to Public Libraries in the United States of America, issued by the United States Bureau of Education, the section entitled "Public Libraries of Philadelphia. " Another paper, read before the Germantown Science and Art Club appeared in 1885 as Symbolism and Science. That same year he published A Bibliography of that Ancient and Honourable Order, the Society of the Cincinnati. Upon the appearance of the first volume of Histoire de Jules Cesar, by Napoleon III, in 1865, Smith reviewed it in the United States Service Magazine, later issuing the review in pamphlet form - Remarks on the Apology for Imperial Usurpation Contained in Napoleon's Life of Caesar (1865).
He died on July 2, 1886.
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Lloyd Pearsall Smith was regarded as a most scholarly man and as better acquainted with library management than any one else of his time. He was one of the original associate editors of the American Library Journal, begun in September 1876. He also published "Public Libraries of Philadelphia", that was a pioneer discussion of the subject.
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Symbolism and Science: A Paper Read Before the Germantown Science and Art Club (Classic Reprint)
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On the Classification of Books: A Paper Read Before the American Library Association
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Address Delivered at Haverford College
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Symbolism and Science: A Paper Read Before the Germantown Science and Art Club (Classic Reprint)
Connections
On October 13, 1844, he married Hannah E. Jones, daughter of Isaac C. Jones, a Philadelphia merchant engaged in the East India trade; no children were born to them, but they adopted a daughter.
