. A twentieth century history and biographical record of Elkhart County, Indiana . dedicated were as follows:L O. Wood, president; Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, vice-president; George , secretary: D. A. Sanders. H. H. Gortner, Mrs. F. P. Abbott andMrs. J. yi. Bowser. The building committee was comjiosed of JosephSmith, the local superintendent, D. W. Neidig. IT. H. Gortner. Thelibrarian. INIrs. Ella R. Heatwole: the assistant lilirarian, ]\Iiss ElizabethRockwell, and the janitor. Ch;irles R. Barry, have retained the sameofiices to this writing. The numVier of vulumes in the librar\ at thetime of
. A twentieth century history and biographical record of Elkhart County, Indiana . dedicated were as follows:L O. Wood, president; Mrs. J. A. Mitchell, vice-president; George , secretary: D. A. Sanders. H. H. Gortner, Mrs. F. P. Abbott andMrs. J. yi. Bowser. The building committee was comjiosed of JosephSmith, the local superintendent, D. W. Neidig. IT. H. Gortner. Thelibrarian. INIrs. Ella R. Heatwole: the assistant lilirarian, ]\Iiss ElizabethRockwell, and the janitor. Ch;irles R. Barry, have retained the sameofiices to this writing. The numVier of vulumes in the librar\ at thetime of its opening was about three thousand, and subsequent liberalaccessions have Ijrought the number to The iiresent librarvboard is as follows: I. O. Wood, president; D. A. Sanders. Joseph HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY . 295 Lesh, R. A. Dausman, Mrs. J. A. S. :>[itchell. Airs. Frank .\bbott. :MissEmma Butler. The re[);)rt of tlie state librarian on Indiana lil)raries for 1904contains the following concerning the Goshen library: The present organization ni the Goshen Public Lilirary datesfrom March, 1901, when it took advantage of the Alummert law of thatyear and succeeded a small public library which was maintained by thevarious ladies literary societies of the city, which societies are there-fore responsible for the inception of the library work in this city. Thenumbers of volumes at present, 1904, are five thousand two hundredand eighty-six, between eight hundred and nine hundred being addedannually. Forty-four current magazines are taken, which are lioundand placed in the reference rooms as fast as the \-olumes are total annual expenditure is one thousand nine liundred ami seventy-five dollars, which is raised by a six mill tax, levied under the iMummer
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