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Collector of books, John Davis Barnett was born in England, December 28, 1848. In 1918, Barnett donated over 40,000 books to Western University in London, Ontario and became the university’s first librarian to curate his collection. He died eight years later and is buried in Woodland Cemetery in London, Ontario
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