Burton E. StevensonBurton Egbert Stevenson, an American author, anthologist, and librarian, lived from 1872 to 1962. He was born on November 9th, 1872, in Chillicothe, Ohio, and studied at Princeton University from 1890 to 1893. In 1895, he wed Elizabeth Shepard Butler(1869–1960).He passed away on May 13 and was laid to rest at Chillicothe, Ohio. Stevenson worked as a reporter for the New York Tribune and United Press when he was a student at Princeton. He served as the city editor of the Chillicothe Daily News from 1894 to 1898 and the Daily Advertiser from 1898 to 1899. In 1899, Stevenson was appointed director of the Chillicothe Public Library, a position he held for 58 years. Stevenson was highly known for his involvement in the conflict. He constructed a 40,000-volume library at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio, with 22 branches. It was said that the Camp Sherman library will serve as a template for similar libraries across the country. He assisted in establishing what would eventually become the American Library in Paris in 1918 while serving as the Director of French operations for the Library War Service. From 1918 until the library was privatized in 1920, he served as its director. He later took up the position again from 1925 to 1930. Read More Read Less
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