Public documents of the State of Connecticut . HISTORY OF LIBRARIES. 2 I 3 7, 1887, and the certificate of organization placed on file at Hartford. Asmall library of 159 volumes, owned by an old society called Sons ofTemperance, was donated in 1888, also an encyclopaedia of thirteen vol-umes by the Rev. G. I. Wood, June 20, 1889. The membership fee hasbeen small, but a few books have been added nearly every year. Therewere 646 volumes July 1, 1894. Fairfield. — The Memorial Library was founded in 1876. The originalcontributions $2,130 ; $720 was expended in fitting up the lower roomof the Acad
Public documents of the State of Connecticut . HISTORY OF LIBRARIES. 2 I 3 7, 1887, and the certificate of organization placed on file at Hartford. Asmall library of 159 volumes, owned by an old society called Sons ofTemperance, was donated in 1888, also an encyclopaedia of thirteen vol-umes by the Rev. G. I. Wood, June 20, 1889. The membership fee hasbeen small, but a few books have been added nearly every year. Therewere 646 volumes July 1, 1894. Fairfield. — The Memorial Library was founded in 1876. The originalcontributions $2,130 ; $720 was expended in fitting up the lower roomof the Academy building. The first year $980 expended for books. Ofthe first contributions, $300 was invested as a sustaining fund. To thiswas added (1879) a gift of $1,000, then another gift of $1,000 was givenas a building fund ; another $1,000 was given last year ; another $1,000was given Columbus Day ; and all these one-thousand dollars have beengiven by Morris W. Lyon, a Fairfield boy. He is principal of the Col-legiate school in New York ; he pu
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