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Monday, July 04, 2016He loved celebrating life and often was the life of the party. His sense of humor was contagious.Jim will live on and be in the hearts of Nancy and their four children, Susan (Tracy) O'Brien of Ripon, Wis., James (Lynne) Van Dinter of Draper, Utah, Audrey (Brian) Purdy and Joseph (Julia) Van Dinter, both of Wisconsin Dells; his grandchildren, Kevin, Brendan and Bridget O'Brien, Nathan, Maurice and Cheyene Van Dinter, Ashley and Lindsey Brown, Bradley Purdy and Sophia and William Van Dinter. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers, Ivo and Gordon; and his mother and father-in-law, Alta and Ed Stanton.The family would like to thank the caring and compassionate people who guided us at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison and the St. Clare Hospice House in Baraboo. In lieu of flowers, Jim would be honored by donations in his name to St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Wisconsin Dells or St. Clare Hospice House in Baraboo.The Picha Funeral Home and Crematory of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., assisted the family with arrangements. For online condolences and information, please visit our website.
Monday, June 27, 2016The Dresden Press” still has a strong claim on Vermont history.McCorison came of age during World War II and, after service in the Navy, attended Ripon College in Wisconsin and later earned two masters degrees, one at UVM and the other in the Library Science program at Columbia. In 1955 he came to Montpelier to become librarian at Kellogg-Hubbard Library and, in a few years time, he was appointed rare books librarian at Dartmouth and eventually librarian of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.As his 2013 obituary noted, McCorison’s skills as a noted librarian, bibliographer, and scholar of early American printing were informed by his intense personal interest in American cultural history. Over the course of 32 years at the American Antiquarian Society he served as librarian, director and, finally president. He was named president emeritus of the American Antiquarian Society at his retirement in 1992.While this scholar of printing history consigned the legendary artifact to “second press” status, it was still the first printing press in Vermont, and within the Green Mountain State it has an historic provenance. From McCorison’s research we know that Alden Spooner bought the press from Timothy Green, official printer for the state of Connecticut. Spooner, at the invitation of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College, carted the press and other printing equipment “from Norwich Connecticut, in 1778 to Dresden, Vermont (before and since known as Hanover, New Hampshire).” In a curious sequence of events Dresden/Hanover briefly became part of Vermont at the time Vermont statehood was instituted. As a result, the official documents of the new state were printed in Dresden in 1779.Wheelock and other residents of the towns in New Hampshire’s Connecticut River Valley were dissatisfied with their treatment by the government of New Hampshire, which was preoccupied with concerns in the coastal and southern part of the state. Hence, they sought to leave the Granite State and eventually form their own state. In the interim they allied with Vermont. In John Hurd’s acco...
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Monday, July 04, 2016He loved celebrating life and often was the life of the party. His sense of humor was contagious.Jim will live on and be in the hearts of Nancy and their four children, Susan (Tracy) O'Brien of Ripon, Wis., James (Lynne) Van Dinter of Draper, Utah, Audrey (Brian) Purdy and Joseph (Julia) Van Dinter, both of Wisconsin Dells; his grandchildren, Kevin, Brendan and Bridget O'Brien, Nathan, Maurice and Cheyene Van Dinter, Ashley and Lindsey Brown, Bradley Purdy and Sophia and William Van Dinter. He was preceded in death by his parents; his brothers, Ivo and Gordon; and his mother and father-in-law, Alta and Ed Stanton.The family would like to thank the caring and compassionate people who guided us at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison and the St. Clare Hospice House in Baraboo. In lieu of flowers, Jim would be honored by donations in his name to St. Cecilia's Catholic Church in Wisconsin Dells or St. Clare Hospice House in Baraboo.The Picha Funeral Home and Crematory of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., assisted the family with arrangements. For online condolences and information, please visit our website.
Monday, June 27, 2016The Dresden Press” still has a strong claim on Vermont history.McCorison came of age during World War II and, after service in the Navy, attended Ripon College in Wisconsin and later earned two masters degrees, one at UVM and the other in the Library Science program at Columbia. In 1955 he came to Montpelier to become librarian at Kellogg-Hubbard Library and, in a few years time, he was appointed rare books librarian at Dartmouth and eventually librarian of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.As his 2013 obituary noted, McCorison’s skills as a noted librarian, bibliographer, and scholar of early American printing were informed by his intense personal interest in American cultural history. Over the course of 32 years at the American Antiquarian Society he served as librarian, director and, finally president. He was named president emeritus of the American Antiquarian Society at his retirement in 1992.While this scholar of printing history consigned the legendary artifact to “second press” status, it was still the first printing press in Vermont, and within the Green Mountain State it has an historic provenance. From McCorison’s research we know that Alden Spooner bought the press from Timothy Green, official printer for the state of Connecticut. Spooner, at the invitation of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College, carted the press and other printing equipment “from Norwich Connecticut, in 1778 to Dresden, Vermont (before and since known as Hanover, New Hampshire).” In a curious sequence of events Dresden/Hanover briefly became part of Vermont at the time Vermont statehood was instituted. As a result, the official documents of the new state were printed in Dresden in 1779.Wheelock and other residents of the towns in New Hampshire’s Connecticut River Valley were dissatisfied with their treatment by the government of New Hampshire, which was preoccupied with concerns in the coastal and southern part of the state. Hence, they sought to leave the Granite State and eventually form their own state. In the interim they allied with Vermont. In John Hurd’s acco...
