Henry Munson Utley

{{Short description|American librarian}}

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| name = Henry Munson Utley

| image = Henry Munson Utley, 1898 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Henry Munson Utley in 1898

| office = President of the American Library Association

| term_start = 1894

| term_end = 1895

| predecessor = Josephus Nelson Larned

| successor = John Cotton Dana

| birth_date = {{birth date|1836|08|05}}

| birth_place = Plymouth, Michigan, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1917|02|16|1836|08|05}}

| alma_mater = University of Michigan

| occupation = {{hlist|Librarian|journalist}}

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Henry Munson Utley (August 5, 1836 – February 16, 1917) was an American librarian. Utley served as president of the American Library Association from 1894 to 1895. Utley graduated from the University of Michigan in 1861 and 1866. Utley had a career in journalism before being named City Librarian for the City of Detroit in 1885. He retired from that position in 1913.{{cite journal|title=Henry Munson Utley|journal=Library Journal|date=March 1917|volume=42|issue=1|page=190}}{{cite web |title=Henry M. Utley biography |url=http://www.onlinebiographies.info/mi/wayne/utley-hm.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908084046/www.onlinebiographies.info/mi/wayne/utley-hm.htm |archive-date=8 September 2015 |access-date=22 January 2016 |website=Wayne County, Michigan Biographies}}{{cite journal|title=Henry Munson Utley|journal=Papers and Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the American Library Association|date=1917|volume=39|page=332}}

Bibliography

  • [https://archive.org/details/michiganasprovin01utle Volume 1: Michigan as a province, from its discovery and settlement by the French to its final surrender to the United States] Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union (Publishing Society of Michigan, 1906)
  • [https://archive.org/details/michiganprovince04utle Volume 4: Michigan as a state, from the close of the civil war to the end of the nineteenth century] Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union (Publishing Society of Michigan, 1906)

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