Memorial Sketch of 
 
 Dr. William Frederick Poole, 
 
 1821
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY 
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 . WILLIAM FREDERICK 
 POOLE was born in Salem, 
 Massachusetts, on the 24th 
 day of December, 1821. He was a 
 lineal descendant, in the eighth 
 generation, from John Poole, an 
 English emigrant, who settled in 
 Cambridge, Massachusetts, then 
 known as Newtown, in 1632. Dr. 
 Poole attended the common 
 schools in Salem until twelve 
 years of age, and thus acquired 
 a fair knowledge of English 
 branches, and had also, by study 
 at home outside of his work in 
 school, acquired a limited knowl- 
 edge of the Latin grammar and 
 higher mathematics. His plan of 
 securing a college education at 
 first seemed impracticable, from 
 financial difficulties, but at the 
 age of eighteen years, the way 
 
 seemed 
 
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 2 TKUUtam f refcericfc poole. 
 
 seemed clear, and he entered the 
 academy at Leicester. He re- 
 mained at this academy for three 
 years, during a part of which time 
 he was one of the teachers, and 
 in i842, being sufficiently prepared, 
 he entered the freshman class at 
 Yale College. He was, however, 
 disappointed in his arrangements 
 in regard to his college expenses, 
 and at the end of his freshman 
 year, left college and engaged in 
 teaching, which pursuit he fol- 
 lowed for three years, after which 
 he returned to college and entered 
 the class of 1849, as a sophomore, 
 and was duly graduated, with 
 high honors. Among his class- 
 mates were President Timothy 
 Dwight, of Yale College, and 
 President Franklin Fisk, of Chi- 
 cago Theological Seminary, with 
 whom he maintained a life-long 
 friendship. Near the close of his 
 sophomore year, he was chosen 
 for the position of assistant libra- 
 rian of
 
 TffliUUam jfre&edcfc poole, 3 
 
 rian of the Society of Brothers of 
 Unity, connected with which So- 
 ciety was a library of about ten 
 thousand volumes. A consider- 
 able part of this library consisted 
 of bound volumes, and, in many 
 cases, of complete sets of the lead- 
 ing foreign quarterlies and maga- 
 zines, and of the best American 
 periodicals. At this time it was 
 customary, in the college, for the 
 topics for essays and other literary 
 work to be announced from time 
 to time in the college chapel, and 
 Dr. Poole, in answer to an urgent 
 demand for such information, 
 presently commenced to post in 
 the library, in connection with 
 each of the topics thus announced, 
 a list of the books in the library 
 relating to such topics, and also a 
 list of the articles in the various 
 reviews and magazines which 
 would be useful in the preparation 
 of essays upon the topics an- 
 nounced. This proved to be of 
 
 such
 
 4 William jfrefcericfe poole. 
 
 such value to the students, that 
 he decided to compile an index of 
 the contents of all the periodicals 
 in the library a work which had 
 not been before attempted, and 
 which index was published during 
 his junior year, making a modest 
 octavo volume of 154 pages. A 
 second edition was soon called for, 
 and as the work seemed to have 
 met a popular demand, he decided 
 to enlarge it, and during his senior 
 year and a part of the year follow- 
 ing his graduation from college, 
 he prepared a new edition of the 
 index, embracing a large number 
 of periodicals not included in the 
 previous edition, making a volume 
 of something over five hundred 
 pages, which was published in 
 1853. Periodical literature to that 
 time had been much less volumi- 
 nous than at present, and was 
 also largely of a high character 
 the most eminent literary and 
 scientific men of the old world 
 
 being,
 
 William ffre&ericfe poole. 5 
 
 being, as a rule, contributors to 
 the well-known quarterlies of the 
 period. The modest volumes, to 
 which allusion has been made, 
 demonstrated the need of a wider 
 and more comprehensive work, 
 and the result was, in later years, 
 the volume known, as had been 
 the preceding editions, as "Poole's 
 Index to Periodical Literature," 
 which made its name a house- 
 hold word in every library, as well 
 as in the home of a great part of 
 the men of letters of the whole 
 civilized world. 
 
 present age has been 
 one of remarkable progress, 
 especially in every department 
 of scientific research, and the 
 method by which investigators 
 make known to the world the 
 progress of their work, by reason 
 of this fact, has changed. In- 
 stead of spending many years, as 
 formerly, in the preparation of a 
 carefully elaborated volume, show- 
 ing the
 
 6 Milliam ffrefcericfe poole. 
 
 ing the results of years of re- 
 search, the investigator now feels 
 apprehensive lest some co-worker 
 in the same field may anticipate 
 his discoveries, and, therefore, so 
 soon as he has material sufficient 
 for a good magazine article, it is 
 usually published in this method, 
 and when a sufficient number of 
 such contributions have been 
 made, the author collects them 
 and publishes a volume. Periodi- 
 cal literature, too, has enormously 
 increased in volume, and the valu- 
 able periodicals are today more 
 than one thousand in number. 
 For the reason just indicated the 
 freshest results of research in al- 
 most every department of human 
 knowledge are found in the pages 
 of the various periodicals, and, 
 inasmuch as no person has time 
 or opportunity to read all of these 
 periodicals, an index of their con- 
 tents, which shall render them 
 available to the student in any 
 
 field
 
 William jfrefcericfc poole, 7 
 
 field of work, is indispensable, and 
 Dr. Poole's early and almost boy- 
 ish training in this work seemed 
 to indicate him as the person 
 especially fitted for carrying it 
 forward. The result was the 
 publication, in 1882, of the "Index 
 to Periodical Literature," a royal 
 octavo of fourteen hundred and 
 sixty-nine pages, which repre- 
 sented the work of all his spare 
 moments for many years. In this 
 work he was largely assisted by 
 Mr. William I. Fletcher, Librarian 
 of Amherst College, who was as- 
 sociate editor of the work, and 
 several librarians of the great 
 English and American libraries 
 were also called upon to assist in 
 the work and to index several of 
 the periodicals. Dr. Poole, how- 
 ever, had the final supervision of 
 everything connected with this 
 great work, and himself examined 
 and corrected the proof sheets of 
 every page of the Index. Five 
 
 years
 
 8 MUlfam jfrefcertcfe poole. 
 
 years after the publication of the 
 first edition, a supplement was 
 issued, bringing the work down 
 to 1888, and a second supplement, 
 largely the work of Mr. Fletcher, 
 appeared in 1893. 
 
 7T\ R - POOLE'S work in the 
 Zl/ library of the College Soci- 
 ety, which has already been re- 
 ferred to, and the publication of 
 the two editions of the Index, had 
 made him well and favorably 
 known in connection with library 
 work, so that, soon after his grad- 
 uation in 1851, he was chosen 
 assistant Librarian of the Boston 
 Athenaeum, and the following 
 year was appointed Librarian of 
 the Boston Mercantile Library, 
 which position he held for four 
 years. During his incumbency of 
 this position, he prepared a cata- 
 logue of the library, upon a plan 
 of his own, which was largely 
 followed in other libraries, and is 
 known as the "Dictionary Cata- 
 logue."
 
 Miltiam jfrefcerfcft poole. 9 
 
 logue." In this catalogue, the 
 author's name, title of the book, 
 and the subjects, were arranged 
 alphabetically, each entry occupy- 
 ing but a single line. The Mer- 
 cantile Library at this time con- 
 tained about sixteen thousand 
 volumes. In 1856, he resigned 
 the position of Librarian of the 
 Mercantile Library to accept a 
 like position in the Library of 
 the Boston Athenaeum, where 
 he remained for thirteen years, 
 until January, 1869. Dr Poole 
 always referred to this period of 
 his life as being especially filled 
 with delightful memories. He 
 was brought in contact with the 
 most cultivated literary society 
 of America. The men who were 
 the principal contributors: to the 
 "Atlantic Monthly," in its early 
 days, and to the " North American 
 Review" of that period, among 
 whom were Longfellow, Emerson, 
 Lowell, Holmes, Ticknor, Charles 
 
 Francis
 
 io William Jfrefcericfe poole. 
 
 Francis Adams and Parkman, as 
 well as many of the younger 
 writers, as Henry James, T. B. 
 Aldrich, W. D. Howells and 
 others, were his almost daily 
 associates. The principal writers 
 for the periodical literature of this 
 day frequented the library of the 
 Boston Athenaeum, and Dr. Poole 
 always made special effort to pro- 
 cure for the library everything 
 which would be useful to them in 
 their literary work, and, by meet- 
 ing them in constant friendly and 
 literary intercourse, established 
 personal relations and friendships 
 with all the people who made 
 illustrious this particular period 
 of American literature, friend- 
 ships which lasted during the 
 lives of all these most interesting 
 people. 
 
 ^'HE first example of what is 
 \+, known as the " Dictionary 
 Catalogue," carried out in a 
 comprehensive method, was Dr. 
 
 Poole's
 
 William jfre&ericfe poole. u 
 
 Poole's catalogue, before referred 
 to, of the Boston Mercantile 
 Library. Before that time books 
 had been usually catalogued under 
 various systems of classification, 
 the volumes being grouped from 
 their general subjects, as histori- 
 cal, theological, medical, literary, 
 etc. No two persons would, of 
 course, ever agree in the systems 
 of classification, so that no cata- 
 logue made upon that plan would 
 be satisfactory to all classes of 
 readers. The method originated 
 by Dr. Poole was at once much 
 more simple, as well as more sat- 
 isfactory. The books were cata- 
 logued alphabetically, as to the 
 name of the author, title of book, 
 and the subject or subjects treated 
 in the volumes, and this method, 
 modified and enlarged as subse- 
 quent experience dictated, includ- 
 ing careful systems of cross-ref- 
 erences, is now in universal use, 
 and is the only method by which 
 
 the
 
 12 TOlliam Jfrefcertch poole. 
 
 the riches of a great library can 
 be made immediately available to 
 students, as not only all the vol- 
 umes on a special subject, but all 
 portions of volumes wherein the 
 same subject is discussed, appear 
 in the catalogue under the subject 
 heading. 
 
 HFTER leaving the position of 
 librarian of the Boston Athe- 
 naeum, Dr. Poole worked for sev- 
 eral years as an expert in the 
 formation and building up of libra- 
 ries in various parts of the coun- 
 try. His experience in library 
 work made him an invaluable 
 adviser in the formation of city 
 or college libraries. He could 
 make up a list of books which 
 would be most desirable and 
 most called for in a library of a 
 few thousand volumes, thus giv- 
 ing to the library the benefit of 
 his wide experience and saving 
 it from the mistakes often made 
 in the purchase of books for a 
 
 library
 
 William jfrefcericfe poole* 13 
 
 library by those unfamiliar with 
 the work. Among the libraries, 
 in regard to which he was con- 
 sulted in this way, was that of 
 Cincinnati, and a considerable 
 sum of money having become 
 available for the city library, he 
 accepted there the position of 
 Librarian, organized the library 
 to a high standard of efficiency, 
 and continued in this position 
 until he was called to a similar 
 work in Chicago, soon after the 
 great fire. His work in Cincin- 
 nati occupied five years, and his 
 services are looked upon by the 
 people of that city, in the organ- 
 izing and planning of the work 
 of the library along lines which 
 have since been followed, as per- 
 manent and invaluable. Soon 
 after the great fire in Chicago, an 
 ordinance was adopted, in con- 
 formity with the State Law, pro- 
 viding a tax levy for each year 
 for the purpose of a public library, 
 
 and
 
 i4 TKauiiam ffrcfcericfe ipoole. 
 
 and Dr. Poole was selected as the 
 man most eminently qualified for 
 the work of organizing this 
 library. He held this position for 
 about thirteen years, and until 
 the Chicago Public Library had 
 grown from nothing to a collec- 
 tion of over one hundred and fifty 
 thousand volumes. This library 
 was popular in its character, it 
 being one of Dr. Poole's most 
 steadfast opinions that, while all 
 immoral books should be ex- 
 cluded, nearly everything outside 
 of this line should be provided to 
 meet the public demand. He used 
 to say that it was much better 
 for a person to read slush and 
 the most foolish novels rather 
 than not to read at all, that the 
 reading of any book induced the 
 taste for farther reading, and that 
 the people who commenced by 
 reading the most worthless books 
 in the library would gradually 
 have their taste formed for higher 
 
 work,
 
 Militant ffre&ericfe poole. 15 
 
 work, and would become readers 
 of works of positive value. 
 *J[N 1887, Dr. Poole resigned the 
 position of Librarian of the 
 Chicago Public Library to accept 
 the same position in the New- 
 berry Library the fund donated 
 for the establishment of this 
 library by Walter L. Newberry 
 having then become available. It 
 had been decided to make this 
 library one of reference simply, in 
 other words, a library for scholars 
 and people desiring to make care- 
 ful researches in standard works 
 for their own mental training, or 
 for purposes of literary work. 
 This was a task much more to 
 his taste than anything which had 
 come to him in his previous ex- 
 perience, inasmuch as it would 
 ultimately bring him in contact 
 largely with educators and liter- 
 ary workers. This position he 
 held until the time of his death, 
 in March, 1894, at which time the 
 
 library
 
 16 "roiliam jfrefcerfcfe poole. 
 
 library had on its shelves about 
 one hundred thousand volumes of 
 carefully selected works of value 
 and importance to students and 
 workers in nearly every field of 
 intellectual effort. 
 
 HNY memoir of the life and 
 work of Dr. Poole would be 
 most inadequate which did not 
 make full mention of his own lit- 
 erary work. He was descended 
 from a line of Puritan ancestors, 
 and still preserved in his own 
 character the most valuable traits 
 of those antique heroes of our 
 commonwealth. The narrowness 
 of some of the earlier Puritans 
 had passed away in the process 
 of time, leaving permanent, how- 
 ever, the high regard for all that 
 was best in the work of the 
 Church and State. One of the 
 publications which first brought 
 the literary work of Dr. Poole 
 prominently before the public was 
 his essay, afterwards enlarged, in 
 
 regard
 
 William jfrefcericfc jpoole. 17 
 
 regard to the connection of Dr. 
 Cotton Mather with the prosecu- 
 tion of supposed witches in Salem, 
 Massachusetts. Salem being Dr. 
 Poole's birth place, he made him- 
 self thoroughly familiar with 
 everything available regarding 
 its early history. Some writer, 
 upon insufficient examination, had 
 made the statement that Dr. 
 Mather originated the prosecution 
 of various people for witchcraft, 
 such prosecutions being in many 
 cases followed by the death of 
 the alleged criminal. This dic- 
 tum, not having been questioned, 
 had passed into common belief, 
 and various historical writers 
 upon the early period of New 
 England had stated this as an 
 unquestioned fact. Dr. Poole's 
 examination of the history of 
 Salem satisfied him that these 
 statements were absolutely erro- 
 neous, and his papers upon the 
 subject have entirely reversed the 
 
 previous
 
 i8 William jfrefcericfe poole. 
 
 previous findings of local history 
 upon this point. Another of the 
 valuable contributions to Ameri- 
 can History was made by Dr. 
 Poole, while Librarian at Cincin- 
 nati, in a paper showing the real 
 origin of the famous ordinance of 
 1787, by which slavery was finally 
 excluded from the northwestern 
 territory. After the agitation of 
 the slavery question had become 
 one of the leading features in 
 American politics, great credit 
 had been given to certain mem- 
 bers of congress for the introduc- 
 tion and passage of this famous 
 ordinance, and their foresight, sa- 
 gacity and anti-slavery proclivi- 
 ties were most highly commended 
 by anti-slavery supporters and 
 writers. Dr. Poole's researches 
 made clear the fact that the ordi- 
 nance of 1787, so far as its special 
 promoters and the members of 
 congress were concerned, had no 
 underlying moral purpose, but 
 
 was
 
 William jfrefcericfc jpoole. 19 
 
 was purely a matter of business. 
 Vast tracts of land in Ohio had 
 been taken up, under the provi- 
 sions of a law passed soon after 
 the revolutionary war, allowing 
 the holders of the badly depre- 
 ciated government currency and 
 securities to purchase land there- 
 with. The owners of this land 
 were anxious to induce settlers to 
 go upon it, and as the class of 
 settlers they were endeavoring to 
 influence were almost entirely 
 from New England, and were 
 opponents of slavery, the owners 
 of the land felt that, could it be 
 absolutely determined that the 
 great Northwest would be free 
 from slavery, it would be much 
 less difficult to induce colonies 
 from New England to purchase 
 land. The moral and humane 
 side of this great ordinance is, 
 therefore, to be credited solely to 
 the people of New England, the 
 expected settlers of the great 
 
 Northwest,
 
 20 limillfam jfrefcerfcfc poole. 
 
 Northwest, whose views on the 
 question of slavery had thus early 
 taken form, and in deference to 
 which views the famous law was 
 enacted. 
 
 :. POOLE found, in Marietta, 
 Ohio, the diary of Dr. Ma- 
 nasseh Cutler, who had been the 
 agent of the New England land 
 companies, and had spent a winter 
 in Washington to secure the pas- 
 sage of the ordinance of 1787, in 
 which diary the object of such 
 ordinance as aiding in the sale of 
 land, and the settlement of the 
 western country, is constantly 
 adverted to. Lobbying in those 
 days would seem, from the ex- 
 tracts given by Dr. Poole from 
 this diary, to be a much less ex- 
 pensive process than at the pres- 
 ent time, the good Dr. Cutler's 
 method being simply to invite, 
 from time to time, three or four 
 members of congress to a dinner 
 at his boarding house, where the 
 
 matter
 
 Milliam jfrefcericfc poole, 21 
 
 matter would be discussed over 
 a somewhat more elaborate menu 
 than the prevailing simplicity of 
 diet in Washington. Another in- 
 teresting feature was brought out 
 in this journal, being the fact that 
 many of the most earnest sup- 
 porters of the ordinance of 1787 
 were from the slave - holding 
 states, but at that time the slave- 
 holding states were the most 
 wealthy part of the nation, and 
 the representatives of those 
 states, looking upon the national 
 indebtedness as enormous and as 
 a menace to the future growth of 
 the nation, were especially anxious 
 to forward any measure for the 
 reduction of the public debt, and 
 the prospect of a large portion 
 of the government indebtedness 
 being used in the purchase of 
 land was the argument which, to 
 the southern members of con- 
 gress, had special weight. 
 
 The
 
 22 TRdiiliam Jfrefcericfe poole. 
 
 TTHE Puritan proclivities of Dr. 
 \1* Poole, to which allusion has 
 already been made, resulted in 
 his literary work being largely 
 confined to the discussion of his- 
 torical problems connected with 
 the settlement of New England. 
 He wrote many admirable reviews 
 of historical works, and the last 
 article from his pen, published in 
 the "Dial" shortly before his 
 death, was a scathing review of 
 a historical work by Charles 
 Francis Adams, in which Dr. 
 Poole hotly resented certain re- 
 marks of Mr. Adams, criticising 
 the work, methods and character 
 of the Puritan Fathers. A care- 
 ful and accurate bibliography of 
 the contributions of Dr. Poole to 
 various magazines and critical 
 journals has been prepared by 
 his intimate friend, Mr. D. L. 
 Shorey, and is annexed to this 
 memoir. 
 
 Outside
 
 William jfre&ericfe poole. 23 
 
 (J)UTSIDE the work of Dr. 
 ^^ Poole in historical matters 
 and in criticisms of historical 
 work, he wrote numerous and 
 valuable papers upon the subject 
 of library management and li- 
 brary construction. His position 
 in regard to library buildings for 
 a time aroused much antagonism, 
 although ultimately the correct- 
 ness of his views has been gener- 
 ally recognized, and the newer 
 library buildings are largely 
 modeled upon some adaptation of 
 his ideas. The early method of 
 a great library building was to 
 have the interior something like 
 the nave of a great church, with 
 the books arranged about the 
 wall and reached by staircases. 
 Dr. Poole attacked this method 
 upon the ground that it was a 
 great waste of room ; that it was 
 extremely inconvenient to reach 
 the books ; and that the books in 
 the upper part of the room were 
 
 injured
 
 24 IKailllam jfre&ericfe poole. 
 
 injured by the excessive heat. 
 The building occupied by the 
 Newberry Library is the best ex- 
 emplification of Dr. Poole's ideas 
 of library construction. This 
 building was constructed upon 
 Dr. Poole's plans, by the original 
 trustees, under the will of Mr. 
 Newberry. Heretofore the usual 
 method had been to bring the 
 books from all parts of the library 
 to one great and general reading 
 room. His idea was to so classify 
 the books as to separate them 
 into a few great departments, 
 each of which would have its own 
 room, and to have tables for the 
 use of readers in each room, and 
 an attendant, who would in time 
 become familiar with all the books 
 in that special department, and 
 would thus be able to serve the 
 readers with promptness, to assist 
 them in the selection of books, 
 and, on the part of the readers, to 
 make the room more quiet and 
 
 suitable
 
 THlUUam jfrefcericfe poole. 25 
 
 suitable for work than were they 
 obliged to do this work in a large 
 room used by all the readers in 
 the library. 
 
 ?TNR. POOLE'S long experience 
 HJ in the chosen work of his life 
 had given him an almost un- 
 equalled familiarity with books 
 and enabled him to point out to 
 any person desiring to familiarize 
 himself with any special subject 
 the books best adapted for his 
 use. He was the Nestor of Amer- 
 ican Librarians, and aided all the 
 younger members in the work 
 which he had done so much to 
 raise to the rank of one of the 
 learned professions, and to whom 
 he was always most courteous, 
 friendly and helpful. All the re- 
 sults of his vast experience were 
 placed at their service, and his 
 uniform courtesy and kindness 
 made him unnumbered friends 
 among the members of his own 
 profession. In all parts of the 
 
 country
 
 26 William ffrefcericfe poole. 
 
 country, where public libraries 
 have been organized, the value of 
 his services can be seen and 
 appreciated, although the two 
 libraries, which will be for him his 
 most enduring monuments, are 
 the two in our own city, where he 
 spent the last nineteen years of a 
 long, honorable and useful life. 
 *ffN recognition of these ser- 
 vices, the Board of Trustees 
 of the Newberry Library direct 
 that this brief outline of his inval- 
 uable work in the cause of educa- 
 tion and literature, be spread in 
 full upon the minutes, and that a 
 copy of the same be sent to his 
 family.
 
 Publications of 
 WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE. 
 
 Dictionaries in the Boston Libraries. 
 Springfield, 1856. 8vo. 8 pp. 
 
 Websterian Orthography; a Reply to Dr. 
 Noah Webster's Calumniators. Boston, 
 1857. 8vo - 23 PP- 
 
 The Orthographical Hobgoblin. Spring- 
 field, 1859. 8vo - J 4 PP- 
 
 The Popham Colony; a Discussion of its 
 Historical Claims, with a Bibliography 
 of the Subject. Boston, 1866. 8vo. 
 
 72 PP- 
 
 The Wonder - Working Providence of 
 Sion's Saviour in New England. Lon- 
 don, 1654, by Edward Johnson, reprinted, 
 with an Historical Introduction by W. 
 F. Poole (154 pp.), and an Index (23 pp.) 
 Andover, 1867. 4to. 419 pp. 
 
 The Popham Colony. North American 
 Review, October, 1868. Vol. 107, pp. 
 663-674. 
 
 The Mather Papers ; Cotton Mather and 
 Salem Witchcraft. Boston Daily Ad- 
 vertiser, Oct. 28, 1868. 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed, Boston, 1868. 
 Z2mo. 23 pp. 
 
 Anne
 
 30 publications of 
 
 Anne Bradstreet, the Early New England 
 Poetess. North American Review. 
 
 1868. Vol. 106, pp. 330-334. 
 
 Cotton Mather and Salem Witchcraft. 
 
 North American Review, April, 1869. 
 
 Vol. 108, pp. 337-397- 
 The Same, Privately Printed. Boston, 
 
 1869. 63 pp. 
 
 Cotton Mather and Witchcraft; two 
 Notices of Mr. Upham, his Reply. 
 Privately Printed, Boston, 1870. I2mo. 
 30 pp. (From Watchman and Reflector, 
 Boston, May 5, 1870, and Christian Era, 
 Boston, April 23, 1870.) 
 
 The Witchcraft Delusion of 1692, by Gov. 
 Thomas Hutchinson, from an unpub- 
 lished MS.; with notes by Wm. F. 
 Poole. New England Historical and 
 Genealogical Register, Oct., 1870. Vol. 
 24, pp. 381-414. 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed, Boston, 
 
 1870. 4to. 43 PP- 
 
 Anti-Slavery Opinions before the year 1800. 
 Cincinnati, 1872. 8vo. 102 pp. 
 
 The Tyler Davidson Fountain. Cincin- 
 nati, 1872. 8vo. n8pp. 
 
 The Same, Illustrated. Cincinnati, 1872. 
 Roy. 4to. 
 
 The Owl, a Literary Monthly. Chicago. 
 
 1874-75. 4to. 
 
 1 be
 
 William jfrefcericfc ipoole, 31 
 
 The Ordinance of 1787, and Dr. Manasseh 
 Cutler, as an Agent in its Formation. 
 North American Review for April, 1876. 
 Vol. 122, pp. 229-265. 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed. Cambridge, 
 1876. 8vo. 38 pp. 
 
 Witchcraft in Boston. In Winsor's Mem- 
 orial History of Boston, 1881. Vol. 2, 
 pp. 131-172. 
 
 The West; from the Treaty of Peace with 
 France, 1763, to the Treaty of Peace 
 with England, 1783. In Winsor's Nar- 
 rative and Critical History of America. 
 Vol. 6, pp. 685-743. 
 
 The Early Northwest ; The President's 
 Address, Dec. 26, 1888. Papers of the 
 American Historical Association, Vol. 3, 
 pp. 275-300. 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed, New York, 
 1889. 8vo. 26 pp. 
 
 Roosevelt's The Winning of the West. 
 Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1889. Vol. 44, 
 pp. 693-700. 
 
 The Ordinance of 1787 ; a Reply. The In- 
 lander (Ann Arbor), Jan., 1892, pp. 
 169-181. 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed, Ann Arbor, 
 1892. 15 pp. 
 
 Columbus and the Finding of the New 
 World. Northwestern Christian Advo- 
 cate, Oct. 19, 1892. 
 
 The
 
 32 publications of 
 
 The Same, Privately Printed, Chicago, 
 
 1892. i2mo. 
 The Dial, Chicago: 
 
 Vol. I, 1881-82. Hildreth's History of 
 the United States, p. i; Dexter's His- 
 tory of Congregationalism, p. 69; 
 Winsor's Memorial History of Bos- 
 ton, p. 152; Father Hennepin, p. 253. 
 
 Vol. II, 1881-82. Lodge's History of the 
 English Colonies in America, p. 32; 
 The Yorktown Campaign, 1781, p. in; 
 Lossing's Popular Cyclopedia of 
 United States History, p. 209; Gen- 
 eral Arthur St. Clair, pp. 227 251. 
 
 Vol. Ill, 1882-83. General Arthur St. 
 Clair and the Ordinance of 1787, p. 13; 
 Doyle's English Colonies in America, 
 p. 221; McMaster's History of the 
 United States, Vol. I, p. 271. 
 
 Vol. IV, 1883-4. Tne Quaker Invasion of 
 Massachusetts, p. 32; German Mercen- 
 aries in the Revolutionary War, p. 305. 
 
 Vol. V, 1884-85. Discoveries of Amer- 
 ica; The Lost Atlantic Theory, p. 97; 
 Thomas Hutchinson, p. 54; Arnold's 
 Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 261; The 
 Pocahontas Story, p. 318. 
 
 Vol. VI, 1885-86. Hosmer's Samuel 
 Adams, p. 65; McMaster's History of 
 the United States, Vol. II, p. no; 
 Winsor's Narrative and Critical His 
 tory of America, p. 317. 
 
 Vol.
 
 William jfrefcericfc jpoole. 33 
 
 The Dial, Chicago, Continued. 
 
 Vol. VII, 1886-87. Thomas Hutchinson, 
 p. 102; Preston's Documents Illustra- 
 tive of American History, p. 155; 
 Adam's Emancipation of Massachu- 
 setts, p. 263. 
 
 Vol. VIII, 1887-88. The Sessions of the 
 Western Lands, p. 285; Winsor's 
 Narrative and Critical History of 
 America, p. 337. 
 
 Vol. IX, 1888-89. Winsor's Narrative 
 and Critical History of America, 
 p. 127; Hosmer's Sir Henry Vane, 
 
 p. 317- 
 
 Vol. XI, 1890-91. The Persistence of 
 Historic Myths, p. 43; Economic and 
 Social History of New England, p. 279. 
 
 Vol. XII, 1891-92. John Dickinson, 
 p. 71; Winsor's Christopher Colum- 
 bus, p. 421. 
 
 Vol. XIII. 1892. Patrick Henry, p. 41. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS. 
 
 Chicago Tribune: 
 
 J. E. Cook's History of Virginia. Sept. 
 
 22, 1883. 
 
 Geo. Bancroft's Tenth Volume of His- 
 tory of the United States, December 
 18, 1874. (Reprinted Boston Tran- 
 script, July i, 1875.) 
 Yale in 1700, Jan. 10. 1875. 
 
 Palfrey's
 
 34 William ffre&erfcfe poole. 
 
 Chicago Tribune, Continued. 
 
 Palfrey's New England, 4th vol., March 
 
 25, 1876. 
 Sam Peters and His Blue Laws, Dec. 
 
 22, 1877. 
 
 Samuel Sewell's Diary, Nov. 8, 1879. 
 Fraudulent Mather Letter on "Bagging 
 Penn," May 23, 1870; June u, 1870; 
 Aug. 10, 1878; Aug. 17, 1878; Dec. 9, 
 1878. 
 Chicago Times: 
 
 Early American Books, May 12, 1876 
 Yale in Literature, Jan. 6, 1878. 
 Chicago Evening Post: 
 
 Fraudulent Mather Letter, May 26, 1891; 
 
 Jan. 13, 1892. 
 Chicago Evening Journal: 
 
 Rutherford B. Hayes, June 17, 1876. 
 Bayard Family, July 8, 1880. 
 Salem Register: 
 
 Nathaniel Mather, Sept. 12, 1870. 
 
 Note. For a condensed history of Dr. 
 Poole, see the sketch of him in Appleton's 
 New Cyclopedia of American History, by 
 Mr. Daniel Goodwin.
 
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