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Van Name, Addison
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1835-1922
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Addison Van Name was born on November 15, 1835, in Chenango, Broome County, New York.
He was an American philologist and librarian. He graduated from Yale University in 1858. In 1865, he became University Librarian at Yale University, a position he held until 1904. During his forty-year tenure as University Librarian, the number of volumes in the Yale Library increased from 44,500 to 475,000. He taught Hebrew at Yale for four years and was the Librarian of the American Oriental Society. Van Name was made librarian emeritus in 1905. He published "Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University" (1913).
In 1867, he married Julia Gibbs (1836–1916). He died on September 29, 1822, in New Haven, Connecticut.
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nr 97034053