AINSWORTH RAND SPOFFORD
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An American bibliographer and librarian; born in Gilmanton, N. H., Sept. 12, 1825. He was a journalist to 1861, when appointed chief assistant librarian of the Congressional Library, and librarian 1864 to 1897, when he became again "chief assistant". He is famed for a comprehensive and accurate knowledge of books and their contents, and besides many essays and articles on historical, literary, and scientific subjects for the current journals, has published: "The American Almanac", etc. (annually since 1878); and has with others edited: "Library of Choice Literature" (10 vols., Philadelphia, 1881-88); "Library of Wit and Humor" (5 vols., 1884); and "A Practical Manual of Parliamentary Rules" (1884). He died Aug. 11, 1908.
By Charles Dudley Warner
