James L. Wadsworth Donates Books For Miscellanea Library
1845 February 20
James L. Wadsworth donates $300.00 in his will to purchase books on the Library List for the school’s Miscellanea Library accepted by the Executive Committee. Wadsworth was a prominent land developer and advocate of school libraries in NYS. This was the first private donation to the school. Other books and maps worth $600.00 were donate by book publishers.
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Exec. Comm. Minutes, vol. I, pp. 17 & 21; French, p. 66