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Book Title: Historical And Descriptive Sketch Of Sonoma County, California

LIBRARY.

   The Santa Rosa Library Association was organized in April, 1875, without a
dollar of capital. Judge Jackson Temple, was the first president; R. A.
Thompson, the first vice president, and D. D. Davisson was the first secretary.
The association rented four rooms in the Masonic Hall, and opened them in
December, 1875. The rooms were neatly furnished, which was largely due to the
interest taken in the matter by the secretary, D. D. Davisson. At the second
annual meeting, held in April, 1876, R. A. Thompson was elected president; A. C.
McMeans, vice president; E. T. Crane, secretary; M. Dozier, J. T. Pressley,
Barclay Henly, G. W. Jones, E. T. Farmer and D. D. Davisson, directors. J. A.
Cooper is librarian. The association has about eight hundred books, and all of
the furniture is paid for. Most of the books are standard works. Santa Rosa is
the seat of widely celebrated institutions of learning; has a reading and
cultivated population, and should have the best public library in the State
outside of the larger cities.


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HISTORICAL
AND
DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH
OF
SONOMA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
BY
ROBERT A. THOMPSON,
EDITOR OF "THE SONOMA DEMOCRAT."
PHILADELPHIA:
L. H. EVERTS & CO. 
1877.


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