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Frederic Vinton was born on October 9, 1817, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Josiah and Betsey S. (Giles) Vinton and a descendant of John Vinton, of Huguenot stock, who was a resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1648.
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Frederic Vinton was born on October 9, 1817, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Josiah and Betsey S. (Giles) Vinton and a descendant of John Vinton, of Huguenot stock, who was a resident of Lynn, Massachusetts, as early as 1648.
Prepared for college at the academies of Weymouth and Braintree, Frederic was graduated at Amherst in the class of 1837.
Intending to enter the ministry, he studied at the Andover Theological Seminary and at Yale, 1840-42.
Although Vinton was never ordained, he was in charge of a church in St. Louis from 1843 to 1845. His health failing, he returned to the East and taught at Nantucket and at Eastport, Maine, from 1845 to 1851. In the latter year, he was engaged by his brother, Alfred Vinton, a prominent citizen of St. Louis, to catalogue his large private library, and Frederic's studies in connection with this catalogue determined his future career. This manuscript catalogue, now in the Library of Princeton University, contains, in an extensive preface, a discussion of the principles of classification which antedates any other printed in America.
After another year of teaching in South Boston, Vinton was appointed, in 1856, assistant librarian of the Boston Public Library, under its first librarian, Edward Capen, whom he aided in the preparation of the printed catalogues issued in 1858, 1861, and 1865. He was largely responsible for the classification of the Bates Hall collection. In 1865, he became first assistant librarian of the Library of Congress, under Ainsworth Rand Spofford, where he was engaged in the preparation of the Catalogue of the Library of Congress: Index of Subjects published in 1869, and the annual volumes of the alphabetical catalogue from 1867 to 1872.
In 1873, he became the first full-time librarian of the College of New Jersey. The Chancellor Green Library Building had just been completed, and his first task was the classification and the arrangement of the collection of about 18, 000 volumes. Under his intelligent and forceful management, the library grew rapidly and at the time of his death in 1890 numbered 70, 000 volumes. The years from 1877 to 1884, he spent in the preparation of the Subject-Catalogue of the Library of the College of New Jersey at Princeton (1884), one of the most scholarly and useful publications of the sort up to that time.
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Despite his infirm health, Vinton was a man of great energy and devotion to his profession and he was one of the small group who founded the American Library Association in 1876. To the Princeton Review and other journals he contributed articles dealing with books, libraries, and missions.
Vinton married, September 13, 1843, Phoebe Clisby, daughter of Seth and Elizabeth Clisby of Nantucket; she died February 23, 1855, and on June 1, 1857, he married Mary B. Curry, daughter of Cadwallader Curry of Eastport, Maine, who survived him. The four children of his first marriage died in infancy; two children were born to his second wife, who survived him.