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WAYNE COUNTY.7
Soon after Prof. Chaney came to Detroit, he learned of the old constitutional provision applying all criminal fines to the support of school district libraries, and he aided in the measures which were taken about 1860 to establish such a library here. When the funds had been secured by the efforts of such men as Henry E. Baker, Edmund Hall, Judge Douglass, aided by the Supreme Court, he was made superintendent of the library, and the chairman of the library committee in the board, William P. Wells, was an old student of his in the
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