O. A. JENISON BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Joel also had some information related to Michael Sullivan's search for volumes from the library of O. A. Jenison:

"I do not know where any of Jenison's books may be (I have none in my library). I do, however, know a few things about Mr. Jenison. His full name was Orien Austin Jenison, and his life dates were May 22, 1823 to August 6, 1895. He spent most of his life in Lansing, Michigan. Jenison's coin collection was auctioned by W. Elliot Woodward in his sale of June 22-23, 1881. Until the opening of the Breslin Center in the late 1980's, the basketball arena of Michigan State University was known as Jenison Field House, in honor, I believe, of Orien's son. I wrote about all of this, and more in my Printer's Devil column in The Asylum, for Fall of 1994. Good luck in finding other pieces of Jenison's library."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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O. A. JENISON BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Wayne Homren, Editor