VINTON, Frederic, bibliographer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 9 October, 1817. He was graduated at Amherst in 1837, and studied theology at Andover and New Haven, but was never ordained. Having trained himself in a private library during five years, he entered the service of the Boston public library in 1856 as first assistant. He entered the new building on Boylston street, with the 30,000 Volumes that had been given by Joshua Bates, and organized the arrangement that now exists. He assisted in preparing the " Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall" (1861) and the "First Supplement" to it (1866). He removed to Washington, in January, 1865, to become first assistant in the library of congress, and held the post eight years. He there prepared six annual supplements to the"' Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of Congress " and the " Index of Subjects" (2 vols., Washington, 1869). In 1873 he became librarian of Princeton college, of whose library he printed the "Subject Catalogue" (New York, 1884).