Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . d as instructors in the newState Normal. CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBR.^RV. Springfield has one of the most attractive pulilic library buildings ofany city its size in the West. It is located on a high and commanding lotat the northwest corner of Jefferson and Center streets, west of the Spring-field high school. It is a very substantial stone structure, coniljining everv GREENE COUNTY, AllSSOrUI. 429 -modern detail (if ccjineiiience am! attractiveness. The corner-slDne
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . d as instructors in the newState Normal. CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBR.^RV. Springfield has one of the most attractive pulilic library buildings ofany city its size in the West. It is located on a high and commanding lotat the northwest corner of Jefferson and Center streets, west of the Spring-field high school. It is a very substantial stone structure, coniljining everv GREENE COUNTY, AllSSOrUI. 429 -modern detail (if ccjineiiience am! attractiveness. The corner-slDne was laidin 1903 and the huilding was opened to the puhlic in KJ05. This magnifi-cent structure was made possible through, the niagnaniniity of Andrew Car-negie, who donated the sum of fifty thousand dollars for this purpose. Thecity of Springfield was supposed to a]:)propriate the sum of five thousand?dollars a year for the maintenance of the library, but so far three thousand•dollars is all that has been receiverl from this source 1)\- the library are now over six thousand well selected volumes, co\ering a wide. CARNEGIE PUBLIC range of subjects. The best standard periodicals are also to be found on thetables in the reading room. Following are tlie names of the present library lioard : George Pe])per-dine, president; Mrs. Edward M. Shepard, vice-president: Mrs. Xictor , secretary and treasurer; R. G. Porter, O. E. Gorman, Mrs. SamuelRogers, Rev. J. T. Bacon, Louis Reps and William Ullman. There are committees on finance, books, house and grounds. The first librarian was Dora A. Wilson, who was succeeded liy Flor-ence Wilson. The present librarian is Harriet M. Horine, who has two as-:sistants, Susie C. Fellows and Lillian Sargent. 430 GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF GREENE COUNTY AND OUTSIDE OF SPRINGFIELD. By A. M. Haswell. No region in the West was more fortunate in the class of men and womenwho were its pioneer settlers than was
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