A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests . of Erie. HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 797 The Public Library is not Eries first, for thirty years ago or more,through the Hberality of a large number of citizens, and especially ofMyron Sanford, Esq., an excellent, though small, library was pur-chased and made available to the public, subject to the payment of asmall fee. This library is alluded to in the account given of the Y. A. That library was not kept up and gradually dwindled to noth-ing, and
A twentieth century history of Erie County, Pennsylvania : a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, and its principal interests . of Erie. HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 797 The Public Library is not Eries first, for thirty years ago or more,through the Hberality of a large number of citizens, and especially ofMyron Sanford, Esq., an excellent, though small, library was pur-chased and made available to the public, subject to the payment of asmall fee. This library is alluded to in the account given of the Y. A. That library was not kept up and gradually dwindled to noth-ing, and in the course of time the subject of procuring another came tobe discussed with increasing seriousness, until at length, upon the ap-proach of Eries Centennial, those who had the matter most at heartdecided that would be an appropriate time to bring matters to a headby having the library project launched as a feature of the is interesting to observe that this second movement for a libraryhad its impetus from the same source as the first library had—not inAlyron Sanford, to be sure, for he had gone to his fair reward, but in. PUBLIC LIBRARY, ERIE. the Sanfords that remained. Mrs. Myron Sanford and Miss Laura in 1895 donated to Hon. Walter Scott, mayor of Erie, W. and C. F. Allis, as trustees for the citizens of Erie, for library pur-poses, a lot 60x90 feet on Seventh street, east of French, and on Sep-tember 10, 1895, the corner stone of the intended public library waslaid. A dollar subscription was then started, but the plan failed. Meanwhile, although interest in the Sanford library projectseemed to have died out. the larger project continued. There hadbeen discussion of the subject for a considerable time in the newspa-pers, and it had been broached to the Board of Education, A. A. Free-man, a member of the Board having from time to time lirought it for-ward in resolutions of one form or another. At length, on December6, 1894, Supt. H. C. Mis
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