Joshua SARGENT

  General Notes:

This is an introduction to an article written by Abby Ladd Sargent. She must be a descendant of Abigale LADD & Joshua Sargent m. 1780/Methuen, Essex Co., Mass - possibly a grandaughter.

Library Work with Children: Reprints of Papers and Addresses Alice I. Hazeltine Editor Arthur E. Bostwick, Ph.D. The H.W. Wilson Company White Plains, New York and New York City 1917.

REFERENCE WORK AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN
The importance of reference work with children is indicated in the next article by the fact that "the subjects on which children seek information are as varied as those brought by older people, and the material is equally elusive." Miss Abby L. Sargent contributed this article to the Library Journal for April, 1895.

Abby Ladd Sargent received her training under her sister, Miss Mary E. Sargent. She reorganized the Wilmington Library Association Library in 1890-1891. From 1891 to 1895 she was librarian of the Middlesex Mechanics Association. In 1895 she became reference librarian and classifier of the Medford Public Library, where her sister was librarian. In 1910, after her sister's death, she became librarian of the Medford Public Library. In 1900 she organized and purchased books for the Owatonna, Minnesota, Public Library. She has been instructor in the Expansive Classification in Simmons College Library School since its opening. Miss Sargent was joint editor and compiler of Sargent's "Reading for the young," and its supplement.

Joshua married Abigail LADD, daughter of Daniel LADD, I and Mehitable ROBERTS, on 9 Nov 1780 in Methuen, Essex Co, MA. (Abigail LADD was born on 28 Jun 1750 in Haverhill, Essex Co, MA and died in 1800.)