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Excerpt from Lewisiana or the Lewis Letter, Vol. 1 of 13 The history of the public library movement in Southington, as read by Mrs. A. M. Lewis (1253) was interest ing. In part it was as follows: In our town, which became full hedged in 1779, having been simply an annex of Farmington up to that date the demand for educational facilities has been unceasing. The more we had, the more we wanted, and, of course a library was a necessity From that date to the present the town has scarcely been Without one in some -other libraries have existed for longer or shorter periods, Lewis Academy (v p 130 Vol. VIII) having always had one. Frederique R. Lewis (v p 91 Vol. XII) of West Haven is having a hand some house put up on Union avenue in that borough. It will be of frame construction and arranged for one family. All the modern improvements will be put in the eight rooms, four being on each floor. Mr. Lewis was recently elected treasurer of the Y. M. C. U. Of the lst Cong. Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.