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NINETEEN AND NIN E MARIETTANA LIBRARY FORCE Minnie M. Orr Nellie S. Sugden Hortense Fogelsong Librarian Assistant Librarian Cataloguer ASSISTANTS France H. Putnam 1:. Anna. L. DeNoon Mg. Edward F. Cellars 09. I7
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MARIETTANA NINETEEN AND NINE Marietta College Library fix , HE date of the incorporation of Marietta College, 1835, afcpb may serve as a date for the birth of Marietta College Library. In truth, however, even as the college was the inheritor and conservator of two or more educa-. tional institutions, so the library inherited from these institutions a goodly beginning. In December 1834, before the charter creating Marietta College had been granted, the trustees gave to Prof. Henry Smith leave 05 absence on salary, from the first of July 1835 to the first of November 1836 for the purpose of study in Europe. His departure was delayed until the summer of 1836 and meanwhile efforts were being made to secure funds for books and apparatus. Just at this time, and 'veryl opportunely as well as very unexpectedly, there came to the college the hrst large gift of money for books, $Iooo. The story of this gift is interesting from beginning to end, if we can be said to have reached. the end. Samuei Stone, a hard working farmer of Townsend, Mass, having been, as the quaint phrase of time expresses it, ttcalled sud-i denly to die, instead of making a will, left his property to the care of a few friends to be distributed in the manner which, in their judg- ment, should best promote the ttcause of religion? These friends must have been men farseeing and wise, for, believing that education and religion walk hand in hand, they gave $1000. to each of several colleges, directing that it must be spent for books. Marietta, then in her in- fancy, was one of the recipients and the money was placed in the hands of Prof. Smith, then about to sail for Europe. According to the in- structions given him he invested the sum in philological works. He, 18
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