WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE
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An American librarian and bibliographer; born at Salem, Mass., Dec. 24, 1821; died at Evanston, 111., March 1, 1894. He was a librarian at Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. His chief work is the celebrated "Index to Periodical Literature", which he initiated, and of which in its greatly expanded later form he was co-editor with W. I. Fletcher. Among his other works are "The Battle of the Dictionaries" (1856), and "Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft" (1869).
By Charles Dudley Warner
Word of the day
tinctura quininae ammoniata
- A preparation made by dissolving quinin sulphate in alcohol [Br. Ph.].