GEROULD, JAMES THAYER

(1872) librarian; 6. New Hampshire. In 1895 Bachelor of Arts of Dart mouth College. From 1896-1897 a istant librarian of General Theological Seminary. At Columbia University Library chief of department from 1897-1900. From 1900-1906 librarian at University of Mi ouri. 1906-1920 librarian at librarian at Princeton University. Literary editor of The Bellman from 10161918. Fellow of American Library Institution. Member of American Library A ociation. &.), town, Rhine land, Pru ia; incorporated with Dii eldorf; gla and wire Amer. politician; 6. Marble head, Ma achusetts: grad. Harvard (1762); member of Ma achusetts gen. court (1772-1773); of Continental Congre (1776-31, 178385); hostile to Britain; anti-Federalist in national House of Representatives 12); Vice-Pres., U.g.A. (1812). (1837), an American social reformer; 6. in New York. He graduated from Columbia University, in 1857 and began to practice law in New York three years later. He was chairman of the New York State Commi ion on Capital Punishment (1886-8), which was instrumental in having the electric chair substituted for hanging, New York being the first state to make this change. He is most poopmeny known, however, as the ead of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, commonly named from him. and of oe he was president from 1876 until