Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1899, Dec. 31 | Born, Washington, D.C. |
| 1914-1916 | Student, St. Albans School, Washington, D.C. |
| 1916-1917 | Student, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. |
| 1918 | Student, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. |
| 1918-1920 | Library of Congress, reference assistant, Order Division |
| 1920-1930 | Successively, Reading Rooms Division stack inspector, special assistant, chief assistant, acting superintendent |
| 1939-1941 | Superintendent of Reading Rooms |
| 1941-1943 | Chief reference librarian |
| 1943-1949 | Director, Reference Department |
| 1947 | Published The Story Up to Now: the Library of Congress 1800-1946, Washington, D.C. |
| 1948 | Published The Lincoln Papers, New York: Doubleday, 2 vols. |
| 1949 | Member, White House Library Selection Committee of the American Booksellers Association |
| 1949-1951 | Assistant librarian of Congress |
| 1951-1967 | Successively, assistant librarian for American collections, incumbent of the chair of American History and chief, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress |
| 1954 | Member, Cooperating Committee for the Papers of Benjamin Franklin |
| 1954-1967 | Member, National Historical Publications Commission |
| 1955 | Published with Arthur Bestor and Jonathan Daniels, Three Presidents and Their Books, Urbana: University of Illinois Press (paperback edition, 1963) |
| 1959 | Fellow, Society of American Archivists |
| 1961 | Published Largely Lincoln, New York: St. Martin's Press |
| 1962 | Appointed to Special White House Library Committee Vice president, Ulysses S. Grant Association |
| 1964 | Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the Papers of Woodrow Wilson |
| 1966 | Elected to membership in American Antiquarian Society |
| 1967 | Retired from the Library of Congress |
| 1967-1976 | Honorary consultant in the humanities, Library of Congress |
| 1981, May 27 | Died, Alexandria, Va. |