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SIBLEY'S HARVARD GRADUATES:

 

 Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended

 

 Harvard College
 

 John Langdon Sibley (1804-1885), the longtime librarian of Harvard College, in 1873 published the first volume in his series of biographical sketches of the men who attended Harvard in the seventeenth century. In the preface to his third volume, Sibley wrote: When my second volume was issued, I thought it improbable that my health and strength would be adequate to the completion of the third. It has been prepared with great and increasing difficulty from imperfect eyesight and from the infirmities of advancing years. I have passed my eightieth birthday, and have expended such working power as remained to me in the folume now given to the public. I can do no more. But the work will be continued by younger hands, into which will pass a large a large mass of materials,--the accumulated collections of more than half a century....  Sibley died later the same year.

 The younger hands  came forward a generation later in the person of Clifford K. Shipton (1902-1973), who began work on the project in 1930 and continued with it during his tenure as archivist of Harvard College and as librarian and director of the American Antiquarian Society. His enthusiasm and persistance produced fourteen volumes, the last completed shortly before his death.

 New volumes are currently in preparation.
 

 Volume 1: Classes of 1642 - 1658

 Volume 2: Classes of 1659 - 1677

 Volume 3: Classes of 1678 - 1689

 Volume 4: Classes of 1690 - 1700

 Volume 5: Classes of 1701 - 1712

 Volume 6: Classes of 1713 - 1721

 Volume 7: Classes of 1722 - 1725

 Volume 8: Classes of 1726 - 1730

 Volume 9: Classes of 1731 - 1735

 Volume 10: Classes of 1736 - 1740

 Volume 11: Classes of 1741 - 1745

 Volume 12: Classes of 1746 - 1750

 Volume 13: Classes of 1751 - 1755

 Volume 14: Classes of 1756 - 1760

 Volume 15: Classes of 1761 - 1763

 Volume 16: Classes of 1764 - 1767

 Volume 17: Classes of 1768 - 1771

                                   Volume 18: Classes of 1772 - 1774 (forthcoming in 1997)

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