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Fremont Rider book: Full name Arthur Fremont. PhB Syracuse University 1905; New York State Library School 1906; Massachusetts Wesleyan University1934; LHD Syracuse University 1937; Asst. in circulation dept. Russell Library, Middletown, Connecticut 1898-99; Asst. Syracuse Public Library 1901; Priv. sec. to Melvil Dewey 1906-07; Assoc. editor "The Delineater" 1907. Managing editor "The Idea Women's Magazine" 1908. Manager B.W. Dodge Co., book publishers, 1909-10. Editor, "The Monthly Book Review," 1909-17. Managing editor, "The Publishers' Weekly," 1910-17; "The American Library Annual," 1912-17; "The Library Journal," 1914-17; "Information," 1915-18; President of The Rider Press, printers, New York City, 1914-33; Publisher "International Military Digest," 1915-18; "Business Digest," 1917-21; President Cumulative Digest Corp., periodical publishers, 1918-22; Librarian, Wesleyan University, 1933-53; Chairman, Board of Trustees, Godfrey Memorial Library 1951-19(??); Author: "Songs of Syracuse," 1905; "Are the Dead Alive" (analyses of psychic phenomena), 1909; "Between Seven and Eight" (fiction), 1910; "The Bringing in of the Almeria" (fiction) 1920; "Subject Headings for Military Science," 1922; "A Classification and Subject Headings for Business," 1925; "Rider's New York City," 1916; Rider's Bermuda," 1922; "Rider's Washington," 1923; "Rider's California," 1925 (four guidebooks of the Baedeker Type); "The Los Angeles Limited" (fiction) 1932; "A Library Handbook," 1933; "A Study of Library Policy at Wesleyan University," 1943; "Melvil Dewey," a biography, 1944; The Scholar and the Future of the Research Library" (proposing Microcards), 1944; "The Great Dilemma of World Organization" (proposing a new solution), 1946; "Compact Book Storage" suggesting a new method), 1949; "Master of None," an autobiography, 1955; "Preliminary Materials for a genealogy of the Rider-Ryder families," 1959; Also several hundred periodical contributions, short stories, book reviews, poetry, professional articles, editorials, etc. Also wrote 16 plays, only one of which was ever produced. Member of American Library Association, Association of Collection and Reference Libraries; Connecticut Public Library Committee, Microcard Committee (Chariman 1944-58), Connecticut Library Association President, American Standards Association 1955-58, Microcard Foundation (chairman 1948-19(??). Member of Zeta Psi, Tau Theta Upsilon, Phi Beta Kappa. Manager Hadham Press, book publishers, 1937-55. Built the Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, Connecticut, 1951. American delegate to the Institute de Documentation, Rome, 195. Inventor of Microcards, book trucks, sectional stack shelving, and other equipment. Residence Middletown, Connecticut, Seymour, Connecticut, Pulaski, New York, Syracuse, New York, Albany, New York, New York City, New York, Grand View-on-Hudson, New York. Address: "Arawana," Middletown, Connecticut.

Birth	25 May 1885	Trenton, New Jersey
Death	26 Oct 1962	Middletown, Connecticut
Marriage		MARIE (ARLETTA MARIE) GALLUP
Marriage		GRACE GODFREY

Spouse	GRACE GODFREY (1876 - )
Child	LELAND ARTHUR RIDER (1910 - )
Child	DEIRDRE RIDER (1913 - )

Spouse

MARIE (ARLETTA MARIE) GALLUP (1890 - )

Father	GEORGE ARTHUR RIDER (1859 - )
Mother	CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH "LOTTIE" MEADER (1865 - 1895)
Sibling	PERLEY BELL RIDER (1886 - )