Nelson, Charles Alexander, 1839-1933

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Charles Alexander Nelson (1839-1933), librarian and bibliographer, was a Reconstruction administrator in New Bern, North Carolina, for a decade following the U.S. Civil War. He returned to the North in 1875 and worked until 1909 in various libraries. He published bibliographies, indexed books and organizational records, wrote articles, and was a founding member in 1876 of the American Library Association.

From the guide to the Charles Alexander Nelson papers, 1850s-1930s, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
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associatedWith American Library Association corporateBody
associatedWith Astor Library corporateBody
associatedWith Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904 person
associatedWith Bibliographical Society of America corporateBody
associatedWith Bowker, R. R. (Richard Rogers), 1848-1933 person
associatedWith Columbia University. Library corporateBody
associatedWith Dante Society of America. person
associatedWith Dewey, Melvil, 1851-1931 person
correspondedWith Gannett, Lewis, 1891-1966 person
associatedWith Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947 person
associatedWith Harvard University corporateBody
associatedWith Howard Memorial Library corporateBody
associatedWith Knapp, William Ireland, 1835-1908. person
associatedWith Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937 person
associatedWith Nelson family family
associatedWith Newberry Library corporateBody
associatedWith New York Library Club corporateBody
associatedWith Poole, William Frederick, 1821-1894. person
associatedWith Rudge, William Edwin, 1876-1931 person
associatedWith Saunders, Frederick, 1807-1902 person
associatedWith Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944 person
associatedWith Twilight Club (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands corporateBody
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New Bern (N.C.)
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Waltham (Mass.)
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Birth 1839-04-14

Death 1933-01-13

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