The Apprentices' Library Society was formed in 1824, chiefly with a view to the benefit of apprentices and minors. Dr. Joseph Johnson was the first President and Thomas S. Grimke, Vice-President. The city Council lent a room in the old Market Hall for the accommodation of their books; and the Librarian, Ebenezer Thayer, opened the Library two evenings of each week. From small beginnings it grew, though the zealous, persevering, and disinterested exertion of its founders and friends, to be an institution of widely extended usefulness. In 1840, it had acquired the means of purchasing a lot in Meeting Street, and erecting a hall, which was destroyed by the great fire of 1861. The corner stones of the foundation were disinterred after the sale of the lot in 1876, and delivered to the Charleston Library Society. They are now encased in the wall on either side of the landing place of the ladies' entrance into the Library. We have already narrated how the Society became incorporated with the older Society
Ebenezer Thayer was born 15 Jul 1767 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH, son of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer and Martha Cotton.
Ebenezer Thayer was born 15 Jul 1767 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH, son of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer and Martha Cotton.
The Apprentices' Library Society was formed in 1824, chiefly with a view to the benefit of apprentices and minors. Dr. Joseph Johnson was the first President and Thomas S. Grimke, Vice-President. The city Council lent a room in the old Market Hall for the accommodation of their books; and the Librarian, Ebenezer Thayer, opened the Library two evenings of each week. From small beginnings it grew, though the zealous, persevering, and disinterested exertion of its founders and friends, to be an institution of widely extended usefulness. In 1840, it had acquired the means of purchasing a lot in Meeting Street, and erecting a hall, which was destroyed by the great fire of 1861. The corner stones of the foundation were disinterred after the sale of the lot in 1876, and delivered to the Charleston Library Society. They are now encased in the wall on either side of the landing place of the ladies' entrance into the Library. We have already narrated how the Society became incorporated with the older Society
Ebenezer Thayer was born 15 Jul 1767 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH, son of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer and Martha Cotton.
Ebenezer Thayer was born 15 Jul 1767 in Hampton, Rockingham, NH, son of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer and Martha Cotton.
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