Collection of materials relating to the history of libraries in Concord, Mass., and to the history of the Concord Free Public Library in particular. <1672-1988>

American Library Association

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The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest and largest library association in the world....

Library Company in Concord (Concord, Mass.)

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Subscription library in Concord, Mass., formed Feb. 23, 1784. Members included John Cuming, Jonathan Fay, Elnathan Jones, Thomas Whiting, Reuben Brown, Ephraim Jones, Joseph Lee, Emerson Cogswell, Ezra Ripley, Elisha Jones, Ammi White, Joseph Hunt, John White, Peter Wheeler, George Minott, Joseph Hosmer, Duncan Ingraham, and others. Apparently not an immediate predecessor of the Charitable Library Society in Concord. From the description of Library Company in Concord records, 1784-17...

Concord (Mass.). Selectmen

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The 100th anniversary of Washington's inauguration was declared a holiday by Act of Congress. President Harrison called for observances of prayer and thanksgiving across the country. The celebration in Concord, Mass., arranged by Selectmen Prescott Keyes, George E. Walcott, and Woodward Hudson, included patriotic music, prayer, the reading of President Harrison's proclamation, addresses by Prescott Keyes, Grindall Reynolds, and E.R. Hoar, and a poem read by George B. Bartlett. From t...

Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.)

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Concord Free Public Library was incorporated March 24, 1873 for statutory purpose of forming and maintaining a public library in Concord, Mass. Corporation organized and adopted by-laws March 28, 1873. Preceding Concord Town Library, founded in 1851, was transferred to Corporation by vote of inhabitants of Concord March 31, 1873. These transactions resulted from proposed gift to town of public library building by successful Concord native William Munroe (1806-1877). He presented to ...

Hudson, Hannah R.

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Concord Town Library (Concord, Mass.)

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At a meeting held by the Concord Social Library on Oct. 11 1851, it was voted "To give the Library to the town on condition they shall establish a public library on the plan contemplated by the Act passed May 24, 1851, entitled 'An Act to authorise cities and towns to establish and maintain public libraries'." At a Town Meeting on Nov. 10, 1851, it was voted to Accept the Concord Town Library, and to house it in the Court House. The original Committee members were John S. Keyes, Add...

Hudson, Hannah R.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....

Davis, Belle Algeo.

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Mara, Mark.

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Charitable Library Society (Concord, Mass.)

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Society formed May 25, 1795, in Concord, Mass., "for the promotion of useful knowledge" and the encouragement of virtue. Established under the name Charitable Society in Concord; by 1801, referred to in the records as Charitable Library Society in Concord. Similar to a subscription library (that is, a library the members of which pay dues entitling them to use the library collection), but with an added, constitutionally-stated benevolent function. The Society provided books from its...

Keyes, Prescott

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Lawyer; district court judge; director, vice president, and president of Concord (Mass.) National Bank; trustee of Middlesex Institution for Savings; president of Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Company; resident of Concord and active member of local boards and committees. Born in Concord in 1858 to John Shepard and Martha Lawrence Prescott Keyes; died in Concord in 1943. Married Alice Reynolds (d. 1927) in 1881 and Grace Cahoon Boutwell (d. 1936) in 1928. From the description of Som...

Concord Social Library (Concord, Mass.)

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Proprietary library (library owned jointly and used by shareholders) in Concord, Mass. Formed 1821. Absorbed membership and collection of earlier Charitable Library Society. Proprietors over the years included Nathan Barrett, Josiah Bartlett, Nathan Brooks, Reuben Brown (Sr. and Jr.), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barzillai Frost, Hersey B. Goodwin, Francis Gourgas, Abiel Heywood, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Samuel Hoar (Jr.), Nathan S. Hosmer, Phineas How, Isaac Hurd, Edward Jarvis, Francis Jar...

Bartlett, George Bradford, 1832-1896

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Gross, Robert A., 1945-....

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Historian and academic. Undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania; MA and Ph. D at Columbia University; author of numerous articles; lecturer; American Studies Professor at Amherst College; Director of American Studies at College of William and Mary. From the description of Robert A. Gross papers, [ca. 1974]-1977. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38051758 ...

Goldberg, Jocelyn Schnier.

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Peabody, Elisabeth W.

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