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portrait busts in plaster. He was editor of the Danvers Wizard, 1859-68; a representative in the state legislature, 1841-43, and postmaster of Pea- body for a short time under President Lincoln. He founded the Mechanics Institute library, which later became the Peabody Institute, and was its librarian, 1856-73. He is the author of several topical satirical ballads including: Giles Corey and Goodwyfe Corey; Giles Corey's Dream; Lament of the Bats Inhabiting the Old South Church; a political parody on "John Gilpin's Ride," and Witch Davee and Banquet on Gallows Hill. He died in Peabody, Mass., Aug. 19, 1873.

POOLE, Murray Edward, historical writer, was barn in Centremoreland, Wyoming county, Pa., July 17, 1857; son of Edward Valentine and Susan (Care}') Poole; grandson of Daniel and Anna Rebecca (Gardner) Poole and of Samuel and Arminda (Mul- lock) Carey; great- grandson of William and Sarah (Packard) Poole and great-- grandson of Lieut. Samuel and Ruth (FuIIerton) Poole of Easton; greats-grand- son of Samuel and Re- becca (Shaw) Poole; great*-grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Nash) Poole; great-- grandson of Capt. Joseph and Elizabeth (Shaw) Poole, orig- inal settlers of Abington, Mass., and greats-grand- son of Edward and Sarah (Phinney) Poole of Wey- mouth, Mass., 1635. Murray Edward Poole was prepared for college by a private tutor and at Wyoming seminary, Kingston, Pa., and was grad- uated from Cornell university, A.B., in 1880. He was admitted to the bar, Maj' 3, 1889, and settled in practice at Ithaca. N. Y. He was married, Nov. 4, 1891, to Eva, daughter of James Zeliffe of Limestone, N.Y. He was appointed special county judge of Tompkins county by Gov. David B. Hill in 1889; was justice of the peace, 1891-95, and acting recorder of Ithaca, 1893-95. He was the Democratic candidate for delegate to tJie state constitutional convention of 1894; was elected president of the National Historical and Ameri- can Genealogical societies, 1900, and a member of the American Bar association; the New York State Bar association; the American Historical association; the New England Historic Genea- logical society; the Sons of the American Rev- olution; the Society of the War of 1812: the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Founders and Patriots of America. The honorary degree of

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LL.D. was conferred on him by Nashville college in 1900, and that of D.C.L. by the American uni- versity in 1901, He is the author of: The History of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass. {1635) and his Descendants (1893); Histories of the Tremaine, Dey, Board, Mack, Ayers, Carey, Mullock, Gard- ner and Zeliffe families, and historical and genealogical contributions to leading magazines and periodicals.

POOLE, WiHiam Frederick, librarian, was born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 24, 1821; son of Ward and Eliza (Wilder) Poole, and a descendant from John Poole of Reading, Eng., who became a proprietor of Reading, Mass., 1635. He attend- ed Leicester academy, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1849, A.M., 1852. He was assistant librarian of the '"Brothers in Unit}'," a literary society at Yale, and prepared an index to re- views and magazines which was published in 1848. He was assistant librarian at the Boston Athenaeum,, 1851-52; librarian of the Boston Mer- cantile library, 1852-56, and librarian of the Bos- ton Athenteum, 1856-69. He prepared a catalogue of the Athenaeum which was published in five vol- umes after he left. He was married, Nov. 22, 1854, to Fannie M. Gleason. He became a professional expert for the organization of libraries in 1869, and was connected with the Bronson library, Waterbury, Conn., in 1869, the St. Johnsbury Athenasum, Vt., the Newton and East Hampton libraries, Mass., and the U.S. Naval academy library, Annapolis, I\Id. He organized and was librarian of the Cincinnati library, 1869-74; the Chicago Public library, 1874-87, and librarian of Newberry library, Chicago, 1887-94. He edited The Owl, a literary monthly, 1874-75. He was a member of the first library convention held in New York city, September, 1853; a founder of the American Library association of Philadelphia in 1876; vice-president, 1876-84, and president, 1885- 87, and was vice-president of the international conference of libraries at London in October, 1877. He was a member of the American His- torical association and its president, 1887-88; a member of the American Antiquarian society; of the New England Historic Genealogical so- ciety, and of the Essex Institute; and a cor- responding member of the Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Wisconsin Historical societies. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Northwestern university in 1882. Besides his Index to Periodical Litera- ture, which was re-published in 1858 and in 1882, he is the author of: The Popham Colony (1866); Wonder Working Providence of Sion's Savior in Xeiv England (1654, new edition with introduc- tion, 1867); Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft (1869); Anti-Slavery Opinions before ISOO (1872); Tlie Ordinance of 1787 (1876); Witchcraft in