Monday, December 1, 2008

John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)

John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)

John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 March 11, 1913) was a librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.



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