Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . lcott Meridian Circle; Southern Stars;Solar Motion and Related R?searches andPositions and Motions of 027 StandardStars. He married in Washington. 1871, Helen M. Hutchinson. Address:Dudley Observatory. Albany, N. Y. BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore: Librarian; born at Litchfield. 8, 1800; son of Dr. David Elmoreand Adelaide (McKinley) P>ost\vick. Heis the eighth in direct descent from ArthurBostoek. or Piostwiek (of the Bostocks ofPostok Hall, near Noithwik. Cheshire,England), who came to . in
Men and women of America; a biographical dictionary of contemporaries . lcott Meridian Circle; Southern Stars;Solar Motion and Related R?searches andPositions and Motions of 027 StandardStars. He married in Washington. 1871, Helen M. Hutchinson. Address:Dudley Observatory. Albany, N. Y. BOSTWICK, Arthur Elmore: Librarian; born at Litchfield. 8, 1800; son of Dr. David Elmoreand Adelaide (McKinley) P>ost\vick. Heis the eighth in direct descent from ArthurBostoek. or Piostwiek (of the Bostocks ofPostok Hall, near Noithwik. Cheshire,England), who came to . in was educated at Litchfield Institute andat Yale Lniversity, being graduated as P>..\.in the class of 1881, was the thst incum-bent of the Silliman fellowshi]) in pliysieilscience, froiu 1882-1884. receiving the de-gree of in 188:5; and he was substi-tute instructor and prodor at Xale. from1883-1884. After leaving Vale, he was in-structor ill the high school at .Monlclair,.\. .!., until 1880, then was engaged in liter-ary work iu New York City, until .\U1I1LU ItOSTWUK MEN OF AMERICA. 103 Ife was chief librarian of tlio New YorkFree Circulating Library, 18n5-18!»9; librar-ian of (lie Brooklyn IMiblic Library, 1809-litdl, anil since l.)01 lias been cliief of thecirculation ilepartnicnt of New York Pub-lic Library, includinf? charge of all branchlibraries, now numbering forty-one. Hewas on the staff of Appletons Cyclopicdiaof American Biography, from 1886-1888;assistant editor of the Forum 1800-1892;associate editor and ofTice expert in physicsof the Standard Dictionary, 1802-1805. Hewas joint author (with John D. Champlin)of the Young Folks Cyclopaedia of Gamesand Sports; science editor Literary Digestsince 1804; also a contributor to periodicalson scientific and literary topics. He waspresident of the American Library Associa-tion from 1007-1008. He has been a mem-ber of the advisory committee of the Pub-lic Education Association and of the Library( ou
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