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Charles Wells Reeder
b. 1884
An early 20th-century librarian and bibliographer, he wrote practical guides and reference works shaped by the everyday needs of libraries and researchers. His surviving publications show a strong interest in government documents, Ohio history, and public affairs.
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About the author
Charles Wells Reeder was an American writer, librarian, and bibliographer active in the early 1900s. Sources from his 1910 work Government Documents in Small Libraries identify him as an assistant reference librarian at Ohio State University, and library catalogs connect his name with several other reference-minded publications from the same period.
His known works include Government Documents in Small Libraries (1910), Recall of Public Officials: A Select List of References (1912), Select List of References on License of the Liquor Traffic in the United States (1912), and Social Study of Portsmouth, Ohio (1905). He also contributed the index for Daniel J. Ryan’s The Civil War Literature of Ohio, which fits the larger pattern of a career centered on organizing information and making it useful to readers.
Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears limited in the sources reviewed, so a full life story is hard to confirm. Even so, the record that remains suggests a careful, service-minded scholar whose work supported libraries, students, and researchers in Ohio and beyond.