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Name<\/strong><\/td>Term of Service<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
Louis Timoth\u00e9e (d. 1738)<\/td>November 14, 1732 – December 10, 1733<\/td><\/tr>
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)<\/td>December 10, 1733 – March 11, 1734<\/td><\/tr>
William Parsons (1701-1757)<\/td>March 11, 1734 – May 5, 1746<\/td><\/tr>
Robert Greenway<\/td>May 5, 1746 – June 13, 1763<\/td><\/tr>
John Edwards<\/td>July 11, 1763 – February 13, 1764<\/td><\/tr>
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791)<\/td>February 13, 1764 – May 13, 1765<\/td><\/tr>
James Johnston<\/td>May 13, 1765 – May 9, 1768<\/td><\/tr>
Ludowick Sprogell<\/td>May 9, 1768 – November 13, 1769<\/td><\/tr>
John DeMauregnault<\/td>May 2, 1769 – August 5, 1771<\/td><\/tr>
William Attmore<\/td>August 5, 1771 – May 10, 1773<\/td><\/tr>
Charles Cist (1738-1805)<\/td>May 10, 1773 – March 7, 1774<\/td><\/tr>
Francis Damon<\/td>April 14, 1774 – June 10, 1777<\/td><\/tr>
Samuel Lobdell<\/td>June 27, 1777 – December 8, 1778<\/td><\/tr>
John Todd, Sr.<\/td>December 8, 1778 – June 16, 1779<\/td><\/tr>
Bernard Fearis<\/td>June 24, 1779 – January 11, 1780<\/td><\/tr>
Joseph Fawcett<\/td>January 11, 1780 – January 13, 1784<\/td><\/tr>
John Todd, Jr.<\/td>January 13, 1784 – February 3, 1785<\/td><\/tr>
Zachariah Poulson (1761-1844)<\/td>February 8, 1785 – March 6, 1806<\/td><\/tr>
George Campbell, Jr. (d. 1855)<\/td>April 10, 1806 – May 14, 1829<\/td><\/tr>
John Jay Smith (1798-1881)<\/td>May 14, 1829 – February 6, 1851<\/td><\/tr>
Lloyd Pearsall Smith (1822-1886)<\/td>February 6, 1851 – died July 2, 1886<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Name Term of Service Louis Timoth\u00e9e (d. 1738) November 14, 1732 – December 10, 1733 Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) December 10, 1733 – March 11, 1734 William Parsons (1701-1757) March 11, 1734 – May 5, 1746 Robert Greenway May 5, 1746 – June 13, 1763 John Edwards July 11, 1763 – February 13, 1764 Francis Hopkinson… Read More »Librarians of the Library Company from its Founding Through 1881<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librarycompany.org\/librarycompanypapersproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}