About Henry Read McIlwaine
Lived 1864 – 1934 (aged 69). Henry Read McIlwaine was an American librarian and editor.
Henry Read McIlwaine (1864–1934) was an American editor and librarian. He served as the third State Librarian for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Biography Henry Read McIlwaine was born in Farmville, Virginia on July 12, 1864.
McIlwaine graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1885 and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. He returned to Hampden–Sydney in 1893 to serve as professor of English and history until 1907, when he was appointed State Librarian for Virginia, a position he held until his death in Richmond on March 16, 1934.
He was a prolific editor of historical volumes relating to the early governance of the Commonwealth including: Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia Legislative journals of the Council of colonial Virginia Official letters of the governors of the State of Virginia The struggle of Protestant dissenters for religious toleration in Virginia
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