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Henry Read McIlwaine (1864–1934) was an American editor and librarian. He served as the third State Librarian for the
Commonwealth of Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States, Southeastern regions of the United States, between the East Coast of the United Stat ...
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Biography

Henry Read McIlwaine was born in
Farmville, Virginia Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 8,216 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County. Farmville developed near the headwaters of the Appomattox R ...
on July 12, 1864. McIlwaine graduated from
Hampden-Sydney College Hampden Sydney is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,450 at the 2010 census. Hampden Sydney is the home of Hampden–Sydney College, a private all-male college that is the tenth- ...
in 1885 and earned a Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
in 1893. He returned to Hampden–Sydney in 1893 to serve as professor of English and history until 1907, when he was appointed State Librarian for Virginia, a position he held until his death in Richmond on March 16, 1934. He was a prolific editor of historical volumes relating to the early governance of the Commonwealth including: *''Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia'' *''Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia'' *''Legislative journals of the Council of colonial Virginia'' *''Official letters of the governors of the State of Virginia'' *''The struggle of Protestant dissenters for religious toleration in Virginia''


See also

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Library science Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...
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Library of Virginia The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, is the library agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It serves as the archival agency and the reference library for Virginia's seat of government. The Library moved into a new building in 1997 and i ...


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American librarians 1864 births 1934 deaths {{library-bio-stub