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Title	Ferst Amerikan Reder
Subject	Education Spelling reform Phonetics
Place	Conneaut (Ohio) Ashtabula County (Ohio) Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	This book belonged to Leander Lyon, who was a druggist in Conneaut, Ohio and a supporter of the Phonetic or Simplified Spelling Movement. Published in Cincinnati by Longley and Company in 1863, Ferst Amerikan Reder (First American Reader) teaches students phonetic spelling. The selection digitized here includes "American Phonetic Alphabet" and sections on school, the five senses, and numbers and figures. The complete volume is sixty pages long and measures 4.5" x 6.5" (11.43 x 16.51 cm). The back inside cover includes Lyon's notes, "Furst buc ai so on Fonics. 1864? Prezented bai A.P. Lyon." Lyon organized his collection of books with his own cataloging system and wrote the classification inside the front covers of his books. In 1896, he joined the American Library Association, which was dedicated to creating efficient systems of classification. One of his special interests, however, was the Phonetic or Simplified Spelling Movement. He used phonetic spelling in business advertisements and when he compiled indexes for his books. He prepared the Index to the Buletinz ov dhi Speling Reform Asoshieshun from 1877 tu 1880. Members of the movement, led by the American Philological Association, included Melville Dewey (Melvil Dui), creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification and president of the American Library Association; President Theodore Roosevelt; and industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Although the simplified spelling movement lost support by the twentieth century, several word spellings were changed due to its influence, including "catalog" which had previously been spelled "catalogue."
Creator	Lowly, Elias
Date of Original	1863
Collection	Leander Lyon Collection
Source	Published material
Submitting Institution	Ashtabula County District Library, Geneva Library Branch
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	Text

Title	Om455_941583_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
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