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Anderson (EDWIN HATFIELD an American)

EDWIN HATFIELD, an American librarian, born in Zionville, Ind., in 1861. He graduated from Wabash College in 1883 and afterward studied at Columbia University and at the New York State Library School. He was cataloguer of the Newberry Library of Chicago and in the Carnegie Free Library in Braddock, Pa. In 1885 he organized and became librarian of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, acting in that capacity until 1904. In the following year he became the director of the New York State Library and Library School and in 1913 was appointed Director of the New York Public Library.