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The History of the Library [title]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Brief History of 2 North Finley Avenue, Basking Ridge, NJ,written by June O. Kennedy, 1991.

A History of the Bernards Township Library, by Library Staff, August, 1988.

Among the Blue Hills...Bernardsville, NJ, by Bernardsville History Book Committee, Chapter 10, The Library.

Archives of the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills, Bernardsville News.

Catalogue of the Basking Ridge Free Circulating Library, 1900.

Catalogue of the Basking Ridge Free Circulating Library, 1912.

Conversations with:

Eleanor B. Rickey

Anne C. Ryan

Mildred Dunham Van Dyke

Copy from Somerset County Court House, March 4, 1930 -- Document of March 18, 1809.

Courier News.

First Annual Report of the Basking Ridge Free Public Circulating Library, 1898.

Friends of the Basking Ridge Library Report, 1957.

Historical Booklet of Bernards Township, N.J., published to Commemorate the Bicentennial, 1760-1960, Historical Booklet Committee, Basking Ridge, May, 1960.

Incorporation of the Basking Ridge Library Company.

Information Received from Michael L. Connolly, During the Summer of 1931, Relative to Old Houses in Basking Ridge and Tenants of Same, as of the Year 1871, October 1, 1931, as told to William L. Scheuerman Sr., Basking Ridge, N.J.

List of Basking Ridge Mutual Loan Library, Library No. III, 1884.

Recollections of M. Louise Henry, circa 1958.

Report of a meeting of the Planning Board Committee and the public, with history of business district, prepared by Norman Hankinson, June 19, 1979.

Scrapbooks of Dr. William Pennington, 1884-1914.

Some Facts about the Basking Ridge Library, Basking Ridge Library Association, 1956.



PLAQUES, DEDICATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF GIFTS AND SERVICES TO THE BERNARDS TOWNSHIP LIBRARY

Lillian Welch Reference Room.

Kitchen in Memory of Sarah Byrd Askew, N.J. State Commission of Public Libraries, 1905-1963.

Margaret Bergen Dunham, 31 years of service, 1932-1963.

Samuel Shannon Childs, this site and building presented by his wife, Emma F. Childs, 1930.

Miss Mary B. Barkalow, 34 years of service (1898-1932).



PLAQUE OF BASKING RIDGE LIBRARY, In Appreciation of Generous Contributions and Bequests Made to Library:

A.A.U.W., Somerset Hills Chapter

Mrs. Charles F. Baker

Mary B. Barkalow Memorial

Basking Ridge Garden Club

Bernards Township Kiwanis

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Booth

Phebe Conklin Memorial

Friends of the Basking Ridge Library

Mrs. Ludolph Conklin

Eleanor Loyer Memorial

Mr. and Mrs. Nelson W. McCombs

Rotary Club

Mrs. Muriel Grant Rowley

Mendel M. Schaenen Memorial

Mrs. William L. Scheuerman Sr.

Willis Folkes Scheuerman

Evening Dept., Women's Club

Junior Women's Club, Bernardsville

Women's Club, Bernardsville

Somerset Hills Jaycees

Allen Connolly

Priscilla P. Carswell

Margaret B. Dunham

 

 
Table of Contents
The History of the Library
 Acknowledgements
 foreword
 Introduction
PAGE 1
 The Early Years
 The Library's First Home
 The Library's Second Home
 1898 - The Founding Year
 The Library's Third Home
PAGE 2
 The Library's Fourth Home
 Mrs. Childs Continues the Legacy
PAGE 3
 The Dunham Years
 Tax Support Investigated
 The Friends Organize
PAGE 4
 Miss Dunham Retires
 The Library's Fifth Home
PAGE 5
 Bibliography
 Plaques, Dedications &  Acknowledgements
 
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