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George Iles
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| Born | 1852 | ||||||
| Died | 1942 | ||||||
| Residence |
Park Avenue Hotel, New York 5 Brunswick Street, Montreal, Canada [1900] c/o Public Library, Ottawa, Canada [1906] | ||||||
| Occupation | literary | ||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1898.04.26 proposed
Notes From Elsewhere
... author George Iles, magnified the potential that libraries possessed to edify large numbers of people. Iles, originally from Gibraltar, had lived in Montreal before he moved permanently to New York in 1887. For many years, he promoted the idea of literature appraisals by trustworthy authorities ...
In 1902, Iles gave the American Library Association $10,000 to support publication of The Literature of American History ...
Writer and hotel manager
Born in Gibraltar, died in New York. Went to Canada in 1857. Journalist and author of various books including Flame, Electricity and the Camera (1900) on technological evolution. He was also a hotel manager
Publications
External Publications
Little masterpieces series
Invention and discovery
the liquor question in politics
many others
The library in education in The Week 7
The appraisal of literature in The Week 13
