Wilberforce Eames

Infobox Person
name = Wilberforce Eames
birth_date = October 12, 1855
birth_place = Newark, New Jersey
death_date = December 6, 1937
death_place = Brooklyn
nationality = U.S.

Wilberforce Eames (October 12, 1855 – December 6, 1937) was a U.S. bibliographer and librarian.

Eames was born in Newark, New Jersey to Nelson and Harriet Phoebe Eames ("nee" Crame).

He worked for the East New York Sentinel from 1870, and from 1873 to 1879 in the bookstore of Edward R. Gillespie, then for several book dealers until 1885. After that, he worked as a personal assistant for George Henry Moore, head of Lenox Library.

He eventually became librarian at Lenox, and eventually Chief of the American History Division at the New York Public Library in 1911, and Bibliographer there in 1916.

Eames contributed to many bibliographies, including Sabin's "Dictionary of Books relating to America". He also amassed a private book collection, counting 20,000 books in 1904, which later were incorporated into the NYPL.

A self-taught scholar, Harvard University awarded him a honorary degree in 1896, as did the University of Michigan and the Brown University (both in 1924). In 1929, he received the gold medal of the Bibliographical Society of London, and honors of the New York Historical Society in 1931.

External links

* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/eamesw.pdf Biography]

Persondata
NAME=Eames, Wilberforce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=U.S. bibliographer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH=October 12, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH=Newark, New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH=December 6, 1937
PLACE OF DEATH=Brooklyn