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Dana (JOHN COTTON an American)

JOHN COTTON, an American librarian and author. He was born in Woodstock, Vt., in 1856, was educated at Dartmouth College, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1883. He did not practice law, but after some years of land-surveying in Colorado he finally became librarian at Denver in 1889. He then made library organization his study and greatly improved the efficiency of the city libraries in Springfield, Mass., and Newark. N. J. He was president of the American Library Association in 1896 and his works on library subjects include: "A Library Primer"; "Notes on DANBURY Book-Binding for Libraries"; and several chapters in "Modern American Library Economy." He was also co-editor of: "Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (6) vols.); "Horace, the Roman Poet, Presented to Modern Readers"; "Copa: the Hostess of the Inn."