Verbatim text from encyclopedia published in 1900

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It looks like much of the section about Cogswell's career as a librarian has been lifted verbatim from the Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography cited at the end. Would be better to re-write this text in contemporary language and remove the late 19th century language about brillant "table talk", etc.

Trevormunoz (talk) 11:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)Reply