Poole, WILLIAM FREDERICK

Poole, WILLIAM FREDERICK, the compiler of the 'Index,' was born at Salem, Massachusetts, 24th December 1821, and graduated at Yale in 1849. While there he was librarian of a literary society, and prepared an index (pp. 154) of periodical literature, of which a 2d ed. (pp. 521) was published in 1853, and a 3d (pp. 1469), with the assistance of the American and British Library Associations, in 1882. A supplement (pp. 496), by Poole and W. J. Fletcher, of Amherst, was issued in 1888; and a similar one was promised for every five years. From 1856 to 1869 he was librarian of the Boston Athenæum; afterwards he was employed in organising libraries (as at Waterbury and Cincinnati). From 1873 he had charge of the Public Library, and from 1888 of the Newberry Library at Chicago; and at Chicago he died in March 1894.