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Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 284-285
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Geraldine Fisher, Marr, Lyons, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Katy Topor, Rick McKinney, Bamber, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Roger Klausing, Michigan Bell Telephone, Finney Co, American Library Association, Doubleday, Newsweek, Bro-Dart, Curtis Pub Co, HW Wilson Co, Supt Documents, Congressional Staff Directory, Michigan State University, Demco, R&R Distributing Co, RL Polk, National Directory Service, Wash Co -
Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 286-287
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Fisher, Marr, Lyon, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Topor, Rick McKinney, Marcia Bamber, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Kevan Lyons, Michigan Bell Telephone Co, Michigan Library Association, Bacon Pamphlet Service, Doubleday & Co, Newsweek, Library Journal, Wash Co. Allen Gray, The Horn Book Inc. City of Howell, Consumers Power, Gaylord, Soil Conservation -
Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 288-289
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Fisher, Marr, Lyons, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Topor, Rick McKinney, Bamber, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Kevan Lyons, Detroit Edison, BroDart, Michigan Municipal League, Bacon Pamphlet Service, Geraldine Fisher, Michigan Library Association, Michigan Bell Telephone, National Observer, Doubleday, Livingston County Press, Library Publicity Clippings, MLA Secretary Mrs. C. S. Mackenzie, Bradys School Spec, Smith & Lowe, Heckman Bindery, Berrien Bindery, Standard Office Supply Co, Newsweek, Wash. Co. -
Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 290-291
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Fisher, Marr, Lyons, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Topor, Rick McKinney, Bamber, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Kevan Lyons, Michigan Bell Telephone Co. D&R Electric, Popular Sub Service, Doubleday, City of Howell, Ideals Pub Co, Wall Street Journal, Wash Co Lib, Geraldine Fisher, Silver Burdett Co -
Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 292-293
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Fisher, Marr, Lyons, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Topor, Rick McKinney, Bamber, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Kevan Lyons, Livingston County Press, Bro-Dart, Wash Co Lib, Geraldine Fisher, Doubleday, Wall Street Journal, Berrien Bindery, W.C. Heller & Co. Beurmann's, Michigan Bell Telephone Co. Detroit Edison Co, Cousins Printing Co, Triquet Paper Co., Suttons Pro Hardware, Americana Interstate Corp, Newsweek, Hoag & Sons Book Bindery, American library Association, Baldwin Hardware -
Record of Proceedings Relating to Howell Carnegie Library Howell, Michigan Pages 294-295
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Fisher, Marr, Lyons, Lannen, Young, Bishop, Klekot, Topor, Merald Clark, Harry Davis, Dale Clark, Kevan Lyons, American Legion Post #141, Silver Burdett Co., Newsweek, Doubleday, Wash Co. -
Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 001
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE HOWELL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING
July 26, 1902
Historical
1902 The newspapers having given repeated accounts of Hon. Andrew Carnegie's generous gifts for Free Public Libraries to various towns and cities all over the country.
W.H. Wood Supervisor of Howell, Mich. wrote to him at Pittsburgh in behalf of Howell, and later received a blank from his secretary making inquiries as to the needs and resources
of Howell. the first reply being considered too voluminous, it was repeated and produced the following.
ANDREW CARNEGIE
5 WEST 51ST
NEW YORK
May 9/02
W.H. Wood, Esq.
Howell, Mich.
Dear Sir,
Responding to your letters. If the city of Howell will pledge itself by Resolution of Council to support a free library at cost
of not less than a thousand dollars a year & provide a suitable site, A. Carnegie will be glad to furnish Ten Thousand Dollars
for a Free Public Library Building.
Respectfully,
Jas. Bertram ?Heg
Also on page image of notecard:
Shadowbrook
Lenox, Massachusetts
September 10, 1919
Dear Madam:
I have received your kind letter written on behalf of the Library Board and people of Howell and wish to send you my warm
thanks. These expressions of appreciation of my husband are very dear to me.
Believe me,
Sincerely yours,
Louise W. Carnegie
Miss M. Winnifred Brow, Librarian
Photograph believed to be of Andrew Carnegie -
Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 002-003
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE HOWELL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING
1902 Minutes
Mrs. H.E. Beach and some other ladies had also written him.
Oct 16 1877 p. 154 approved May 21 of geing Sections 3449 to 3460 compiled Lo? of 1897 having provided a way for the authorization
of Free Public Libraries in cities , villages, and townships by petition of fifty voters asking that a tax may be levied for a free public library
S3458 not exceeding one mill upon a dollar and a vote thereon. W.H. Wood circulated a petition therefor and filed the same with the Township Clerk
Frank J. Jolt on Dec. 27, 1901
The Petition is a follows:
'Copy'
To the Township Clerk of Howell Townhip, Livingston County, Mich.
We, the undersigned, fifty or more voters of the Township of Howell, respectfully petition that a tax be levied for the establishment of a free
public library in said township of Howell at the rate of one mill upon the dollar as provided by Section 3458 Compiled Laws of 1897.
Dated, Howell, Mich, Dec. 26, 1901
1. W.H. S. Wood 29. A Garland
2. K.S.B. Holt 30. E.J. Drewery
3. W.R. Whitacre 31. W. W. Papsworth
4.H.D. Finley 32. Alfred Garland
5. W.B. Johnson 33. Frank J. Mason
6. G. A. Wimbles 34.F. P. Stowe
7. A. Winegar 35. H. W. Monroe
8. Robt. H. Brason 36. D.J. O'Dell
9. J.B. Bassau 37. Mylo Phillips
10. H. H. Wines 38. E.B. Rogers
11. J. J. Crosby 39. M.J. McPherson
12. E. D. Galloway 40. E,G. McPherson
13. Wm. McPherson Jr. 41. F.M. Lansing
14. F.E. Lansing 42. L.H. Sullivan
15. H. G. McPherson 43. W.H. Porter
16. Jas. J. VanKeuran Jr. 44. J.S. Fields
17. F. J. Hall 45. A. E. Papsworth
18. Frank Melia 46. J.E. Gilmore
19. W. L. Lyons 47. L.D. Brokaw
20. Fred P Dean 48. O. P. Parker
21. A.D. Thompson 49. L.C. Smith
22. E.A. Stowe 50. O.J. Person?
23. Timothy Smith 51. J. H. Miner
24. Chas. G. Jewett 52 Seth B. Reibert
25. E. L. Avery 53. Nelson Yelland
26. H. Culver 54. Geo. Hornung
27. Claude Culver 55. C.E. Beurman Jr
28. Wm. Geary 56. J.M. Teasdale
57. F. Vogt 58. E. ? Beurman
59. D. W. Newell 60. William Dunn
61. Chas. N Krause
I hereby certif. the foregoing copy of petition has been compared to me with the original petition now on file in my office, said petition having been
filed Dec. 27, 1901 and that the above is a true and correct copy thereof of said petition and the names therein undersigned.
Dated Howell Mich July 26, 1902
Frank J. Holt
Township Clerk
F. J. Holt, Township Clerk of the Township of Howell, being duly sworn deposes and saith that the accompanying 'Election Notice' is a true copy of
which he caused six copies to be posted in as many different places in the Township of Howell on the 20th day of March, 1902.
Frank J Holt
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of July 1902 at Howell, Mich. W.H. W. Wood, Notary Public
Transcription of 'Election Notice'
Notice is hereby given to the electors of the township of Howell in the county of Livingston and state of Michigan, that the next ensuing township
election will be held the first Monday of April next, being the seventh day of said month at the Howell Village Engine House for the first voting
precinct and the Rubert Hotel for the second voting precinct, in said township at which election the regular township officers will be chosen also the
necessary petition having been filed with the township clerk, each elector may vote 'for a one mill tax for a free public library' or 'against a one mill tax for a
free public library.'
The polls of the election shall be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as may be, and shall be closed between the
hours of three an six in the afternoon, and the inspectors shall cause proclamation to be made at least one hour before the closing of the polls.
The inspectors may also at their discretion adjourn the polls at twelve o'clock, noon, for one hour.
Dated at Howell this nineteenth day of March 1902.
Frank J. Holt
Township Clerk -
Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 004-005
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
Page 4
April 7, 1902 (P. 568)
The whole number of votes on the proposition for one mill tax for Free Public Library was six hundred seventy nine (679) as follows for one mill tax for Free Public Library 'yes' four hundred forty five (445) for a one mill tax for a Free Public Library 'no' two hundred thirty four (234) there were rejected sixty (60) from general record township of Howell page 568. Meeting of Township Board of Howell.
July 3, 1902 (P. 577 P. 578)
Present. W.H.S. Wood Supervisor, Eugene ?A ?Stowe and James L. Pettibone Justices and Frank J. ?Hall, Clerk
Moved by Wood, supported by Pettibone that the following resolution be adopted. Carried.
A Resolution to accept the Donation of Andrew Carnegie Whereas Andrew Carnegie has agreed to furnish Ten Thousand Dollars to the Township of Howell, Michigan to erect a Free Public Library Building on condition that said Township shall pledge itself by Resolution of Township Board to support a Free Public Library at cost of not less than One Thousand Dollars a year, and provide a suitable site for said building now therefore.
Be it resolved by the Township Board of the Township of Howell, Mich. that said Township accept said Donation and it does hereby pledge itself to comply with the requirements of said Andrew Carnegie.
Resolved That it will furnish a suitable site for said building and will maintain a Free Public Library in said building when erected, at a cost of not less than One Thousand Dollars a year.
Resolved that an annual levy shall hereafter be made upon the taxable property of said Township sufficient
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in amount to comply with the above requirements.
W.H.S. Wood, Supervisor
JL. Pettibone Justice of the Peace
Eugene A Stowe Justice of the Peace
Frank J. Holt Clerk
Township Board of Howell Township, Livingston Co. Michigan
I Frank J ?Holt, Clerk of the Township of Howell, Mich. do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and complete copy and transcript of a Resolution passed by Township Board of said Township at their special meeting but regular session as all members were present on 3rd day of July, 1902 A.D.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Township this 3rd day of July A.D. 1902 (seal) Frank J. ?Hall Clerk of Howell Township
I hereby certify that the foregoing quotation from pages 568, 577, 578 of the General Record of the Township of Howell, Mich. relating to the vote for a free public library April 7, 1902 and to the resolution accepting the offer of Andrew Carnegie have been compared with the original record and are true copies thereof Frank J. Holt, Township Clerk
Mar. 1902
No public meetings were held advocating an affirmative vote only a few articles in favor appeared in the Howell press The Livingston Republican, Democrat and Herald, these written by ?DL ?Hayer, ?Mrs. ?F.J. Lee and W.H.S. Wood it being ?disirous of obtaining a calm expression of the public mind on the proposition -
Record of Proceedings Relating to the Howell Free Public Library and Carnegie Library Building. Howell, Michigan Pages 006-007
Howell Carnegie Library board minutes and ledger entries approved by the board.
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO THE HOWELL FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING
April 1902
It was understood that the Howell Ladies LIbrary and Howell Ladies clerk favored the idea and to received the voters of the coming vote thereon,
W.H.S. Wood pasted on posts and buildings & on April 5th, the following slip.
The ticket was as follows (Copy of ballot)
Vote on the Proposition for One Mill Tax for Free Public Library
For a one mill tax for a Free Public Library [ ] YES
For a one mill tax for a Free Public Library [ ] NO
Printed at the Livingston Democrat Office.
The Election Notice also appeared in the Livingston Democrat & Republican.
Justice David D. Harger, also, Deputy Township Clerk, posted the notices in six places in the township and filed his affidavit thereof.
Later W. H. S. Wood wrote Mr. Carnegie asking for $15,000 in order to get a better building owning to high prices of labor and material this
year.
Ives and Whitefield New York architechs wrote as early as Jan 17, 1902 in relation to designs but in July their schedule offers were
received and considered too high for a building of this size and cost.
Below April 1902: The Legal Information Quarterly published by W.H. S. Wood contained the following.
LEGAL INFORMATION QUARTERLY VOL.3, NO. 1, APRIL 1902
A Free Public Library for Howell
We ought to have it for our children, to promote culture, give people better opportunities for original research to given workingmen a better
chance to use their evenings to profit to benefit the town for the ladies and other societies for the boys and the lyceums for the farmers and their
clubs for the schools and their pupils for the parents and the home. The chance is referred to the people. The opportunity to vote 'yes: on town
meeting day should not be neglected it may be the awakening of our people to better things. The train of progress is passing. Shall we get on
or go under?
New York, Jan 9, 1902
W. H.S. Wood, Esq. Howell, Mich.
Dear Sir: Responding to your letters: If the City of Howell will pledge itself by resolution of Councils to support a Free Llibrary at cost of not less
than a thousand dollars a year, and will provide a suitable site, Mr. Carnegie will be glad to furnish ten thousand dollars for a Free Public LIbary
Building.
Respectfully yours,
Jas. Bertram
Private Secretary
160 Fifth Ave., New York.
January 17, 1902
Ives & Whitefield, Architects
In re: Howell Library
W.H.S. Wood, Esq., Howell, Michg.
Dear Sir:
Through the courtesy of Mr. Bertram, we are informed that Mr. Carnegie has recently given the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a
suitable library building at Howell. We shall be pleased to have you consider us in connection with the preparation of the designs and take pleasure in
referring you to Mr. Bertram.
Yours very truly,
IVES & WHITEFIELD
We clip the following from the Livingston Republican of Jan 22:
'As published in the Republican last week, Carnegie has offered to give the Village of Howell $10,000 for a free library on certain conditions. The
question now is, shall the requirements be met? If the people want a free library the law provides the way of procedure. Below we give the law:
'Section 3458. When fifty voters of any incorporated village or township shall present a petition to the clerk of the village or township, asking that a
tax may be levied for the establishment of a free public library, in such village or township, and shall specify in their petition a rate of taxation, not to exceed one mill on the dollar
, such clerk shall, in the next legal notice of the regular annual election in such village or township, give notice that at such election every voter
may vote 'for a mill tax, for a free public library' specifying in such notice the rate of taxation mentioned in such petition and if the majority of all the votes cast
in such village or township shall be for the tax for a free public library, the tax specified in such notice shall be levied and collected in the manner
with other general taxes of said village or township, and shall be known as the 'library fund,' and when such free public library shall have been
established and a board of directors elected and qualified, as hereinafter provided, it shall be the duty of such board of directors on or before the
first Monday of September in each year, to prepare an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the support and maintenance of such
library for the ensuing year, not exceeding one mill on the dollar of the taxable property of such village or township, and report such estimate to the
assessor of such village or the supervisor of the township, for assessment and collection, the same as other village or township taxes, and the
same shall be assessed and collected, and the corporate authorities of any such village or townships may exercise the same powers conferred upon
the corporate authorities of cities under this act.
'Section 3459. At the next regular election after any village or township shall have voted to establish a free public library there shall be elected a library
board of six directors -one-third for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years and annually therafter there shall be elected two directors
who shall hold their office for three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified which board shall have the same powers as are by
this act conferred upon the board of directors of free public libraries in cities'.
It will be seen that the first year only is the tax a one mill tax after that it depends upon estimates within the one mill tax, and probably 2-5 of a mill tax would be enough
after the first year, or 3-5 at most. It is to be a free circulating library. It will call people here from surrounding towns. Perhaps they can be
induced by special legislation to join with us. The necessary petition signed by many of our heaviest taxpayers has been filed. The steps
are taken, voters it lays with you. Don't forget to vote FOR the proposition.
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