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See also: American writer and librarian, was See also: born in See also: Boston, Massachusetts, on the 2nd of See also: January 1831
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At the age of nineteen he printed a See also: History of See also: Duxbury, Mass., the home of his ancestors
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He See also: left Harvard before See also: graduation to study in See also: Paris and See also: Heidelberg, but not until he had planned an extended memoir of See also: Garrick and his Contemporaries, the See also: manuscript of which, in ten folio volumes with a mass of notes, is in the library of Harvard University
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In 1866 See also: Winsor was appointed a trustee of the Boston public library, and in 1868 its See also: superintendent
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In 1877 he became librarian of Harvard University, a position he retained until his See also: death
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He greatly popularized the use of both these See also: great collections of books
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While at the Boston public library he edited a most useful See also: catalogue of books in history, biography and travel, and compiled the first of a series of See also: separate lists of See also: works of See also: historical fiction
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In 1876 he began a series of monumental publications
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The first was a Bibliography of the See also: Original Quartos and Folios of See also: Shakespeare with Particular Reference to Copies in See also: America
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Unfortunately, all except about a See also: hundred copies of this See also: work were destroyed by fire
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A small See also: volume entitled The Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution (1879) is the See also: model of a reasonable bibliography
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In 188o he began the editing of the Memorial History of Boston (4 vols., 4to), with the co-operation of seventy writers
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He so manipulated the contributions and supplemented them with notes as to give an air of unity to the whole work, and completed it in twenty-three months . He then set to work on a still larger co-operativeSee also: book, The Narrative and Critical History of America, which was completed (1889) in eight royal See also: octavo volumes
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These great tasks had compelled Winsor to make a careful and systematic study of historical problems with the aid of contemporaneous cartography
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Among the early results of this study were the Bibliography of See also: Ptolemy's Geography (1884), and the Catalogue of the See also: Kohl Collection of Maps See also: relating to America (1886), published in the Harvard Library Bulletins
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His vast knowledge tcok the final See also: form of four volumes entitled Christopher See also: Columbus (1891), Cartier to Frontenac (1894), The See also: Mississippi See also: Basin (1895), and The Westward See also: Movement (1897)
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Besides great stores of information hitherto accessible only to the specialist, these contain many strong expressions of dissent from currently received views
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Winsor served for many years on the Massachusetts Archives Commission
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His careful Report on the Maps of the See also: Orinoco-See also: Essequibo Region was prepared at the See also: request of the See also: Venezuela Boundary Commission
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He was one of the founders of both the American Library Association and the American Historical Association, and was president of both—of the former for ten years, 1876-1885, and the latter in 1886-1887
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He died in Cambridge on the 22nd of See also: October 1897
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See Horace E
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Scudder's " Memoir of See also: Justin Winsor " in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (2nd series), vol. xii
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Also the Harvard Graduates' See also: Magazine (See also: December 1897)
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A bibliography of his writings is in Harvard See also: College Library, See also: Bibliographical Contributions, No
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