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HILDEBURN, Charles Swift Riche, bibliographer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 August, 1855. He received his education in private schools. Since 1876 he has been librarian of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia. He edited with notes "The Inscriptions in St. Peter's Church-Yard, Philadelphia, copied by Reverend William White Bronson" (1879); is the compiler of "A Century of Printing: the Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784" (2 vols., 1885-'6); and has contributed numerous historical and biographical articles to various magazines. He is one of the commissioners to prepare and publish the statutes at large of Pennsylvania prior to 1800, which will require about ten volumes, the first to appear in 1888.
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