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...estate of John Langdon Sibley, Librarian Emeritus of Harvard College, has been appraised at little more than...
...Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy, meeting at Exeter for the stated examination, on the day appointed for the funeral of the late John Langdon Sibley, desire to enter upon their records an expression of their deep sorrow at the close of this long and honored life...
...Peabody in the Cambridge Tribune pays the following tribute to the late John Langdon Sibley. "His whole life has been a sacrifice of himself. Trained in a frugal home, and for many years with straightened income, he first made use of enlarged means in relieving distress and want, and in helping students who were struggling under adverse circumstances. He practised the most rigid economy as to his own personal expenses, that he might enjoy the greater luxury of a generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount...
...will of John Langdon Sibley has been filed in the probate court. His widow receives the income of his entire estate. At her death the bulk of his property will be given to the Massachusetts Historical Society...
...library was removed to Gore Hall, and numbered at that time about 41,000 volumes, and had a fund with a total income of $250 a year. In the same year Mr. Sibley became assistant librarian. Fifteen years later, at the death of the librarian, Dr. Thaddeus William Harris, known widely as an entomologist, Mr. Sibley succeeded to the position of librarian. In 1877, when Mr. Sibley resigned and became librarian Emeritus, the library contained 164,000 volumes and nearly as many pamphlets, and the permanent fund' formerly $5000, had been increased...