Legacy LibraryJohn Askin
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Library Information
| Library date | 1821 |
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| Library Size (titles) | 58 identified |
| Library Size (volumes) | 407 |
| Sources | Annual inventories of Askin's estate dated 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1787, and ~1808 Probate inventory "Inventory of Property Real and Personal Belonging to the Estate of the Late John and Archange Askin, Sandwich" (1821) Agnes Haigh Widder, "The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books." Michigan Historical Review 33:1 (Spring 2007), pp. 27-57. |
| Library Notes | Askin's library, one of the first known collections in Michigan, is documented in annual inventories of his estate dated 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1787, and ~1808, plus an 1821 inventory of Askin's estate titled "Inventory of Property Real and Personal Belonging to the Estate of the Late John and Archange Askin, Sandwich." Each of these contains a section headed "Writing Implements, Books, and etc." - these list the books by author and/or short title and an assigned monetary value. The inventories, held at several archival repositories in Canada, are not thoroughly transcribed in Widder's article; more data (including assigned values) could be retrieved from them in future. |
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| Date of Birth | 1739 |
| Date of Death | 1815 |
| Gender | male |
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