Excerpt from Semi-Centennial of the Litchfield Historical and Antiquarian Society When the late John A. Vanderpoel gave our handsome library building as a memorial to his grandmother, Mrs. William Curtis Noyes, he had in mind the erection of an addition when the necessity arose. The rapid growth of the Historical Society and of the Scientific Association and the large number of collections of animals, birds, butterflies, insects, etc., secured by the latter, made imperative the erection of a suitable building where these collections could be housed and the two societies have their meetings. Mrs. Emily N. Vanderpoel, who had already been most generous in her benefactions, offered to erect the building needed as carrying out the original plan of her son and an addition to the Noyes Memorial Building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.