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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 158676, member: 33"]The author, Mrs. Frances D. Jermain, had died in 1905. Thus the designation that this was a "memorial edition." I don't find any earlier printing of this book. Perhaps she had worked on it for a long time? Her son, Sylvanus P. Jermain, had this book published in 1906 as a memorial to his mother.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mrs. Jermain was the superintendent of the Toledo (Ohio) public library for a while, and before that was a reference librarian there.</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C98yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=%22frances+d.+jermain%22&source=bl&ots=_O9dZ-TeEm&sig=AfDVon6CJOrDHqULmjZIKksNBt0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifiaPGxtrNAhXC3YMKHbV2DKI4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=%22frances%20d.%20jermain%22&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=C98yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=%22frances+d.+jermain%22&source=bl&ots=_O9dZ-TeEm&sig=AfDVon6CJOrDHqULmjZIKksNBt0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifiaPGxtrNAhXC3YMKHbV2DKI4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=%22frances%20d.%20jermain%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=C98yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq="frances+d.+jermain"&source=bl&ots=_O9dZ-TeEm&sig=AfDVon6CJOrDHqULmjZIKksNBt0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifiaPGxtrNAhXC3YMKHbV2DKI4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q="frances d. jermain"&f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I see that a branch of the library was named for her for a long time. I did not investigate whether or not this is still the case.</p><p><br /></p><p>Her son Sylvanus Jermain was very well known in Toledo during his lifetime. See this list:</p><p><a href="http://www.ottawapark.org/linked/spjermainnopics.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ottawapark.org/linked/spjermainnopics.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ottawapark.org/linked/spjermainnopics.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, this book would probably not have much value in general, unless there was some historian of Toledo, Ohio who might be interested in it, perhaps?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 158676, member: 33"]The author, Mrs. Frances D. Jermain, had died in 1905. Thus the designation that this was a "memorial edition." I don't find any earlier printing of this book. Perhaps she had worked on it for a long time? Her son, Sylvanus P. Jermain, had this book published in 1906 as a memorial to his mother. Mrs. Jermain was the superintendent of the Toledo (Ohio) public library for a while, and before that was a reference librarian there. [URL]https://books.google.com/books?id=C98yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=%22frances+d.+jermain%22&source=bl&ots=_O9dZ-TeEm&sig=AfDVon6CJOrDHqULmjZIKksNBt0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifiaPGxtrNAhXC3YMKHbV2DKI4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=%22frances%20d.%20jermain%22&f=false[/URL] I see that a branch of the library was named for her for a long time. I did not investigate whether or not this is still the case. Her son Sylvanus Jermain was very well known in Toledo during his lifetime. See this list: [URL]http://www.ottawapark.org/linked/spjermainnopics.htm[/URL] All that being said, this book would probably not have much value in general, unless there was some historian of Toledo, Ohio who might be interested in it, perhaps?[/QUOTE]
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