Ed Klitch: Let’s talk about the Washington County Library. Tell us something in your own words about that. And do touch on this well-known lady, Miss Titcomb.
Visiting the Oakes' farm on Middleburg Pike, now Rt. 11, north of Hagerstown.
The book wagon stops at a country home, west of Hancock. A large stone house stands behind the white picket fence.
Joshua Thomas and the book wagon. Joshua Thomas, a Civil War veteran and member of the GAR, had earlier served as the janitor in the library. He was listed on the 1910 census as a "Book Missionary" for the public library.
Three ladies, Mr. Thomas, the driver, and the original bookwagon, 1905-1910. They are standing in the road, beside a high white picket fence. Joshua Thomas, a Civil War veteran and member of the GAR, had earlier served as the janitor in the library. He was listed on the 1910 census as a "Book Missionary" for the public library.
Mary Titcomb was the first librarian at Washington County Free Library and the person who originated the idea of a county-wide delivery of books.
Mary Lemist Titcomb, 1857-1932, was born in New Hampshire, worked in the Concord, Massachusetts, Public Library, later became librarian of the public library in Rutland, Vermont and secretary of the first Vermont Library Commission.