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Maurice William Myers (February 18, 1821 – December 8, 1899) was an American librarian.

Biography

Maurice William Myers was born to a Jewish family in London in 1821. He emigrated to New York in 1833, and moved to Cincinnati in 1837. He first studied law and was admitted to the bar, but ultimately became sublibrarian of the library of the Cincinnati Law Library Association (1860), and then chief librarian (1861). The library was burned on March 29, 1884, but chiefly through Myers' efforts the building was rebuilt, and at his death it contained 30,000 volumes, almost all selected by himself.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Adler, Cyrus; Jacobs, Joseph (1905). "Myers, Maurice William". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 136.

1. Singerman, Robert (1998). "Books Weeping for Someone to Visit and Admire Them: Jewish Library Culture in the United States, 1850–1910". Studies in Bibliography and Booklore. 20: 122. JSTOR 27943556.

• 1821 births
• 1899 deaths
• 19th-century American Jews
• 19th-century American people
• American librarians
• Law librarians
• People from London
• British emigrants to the United States