Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925

found: LC data base, 3-13-89(hdg.: Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925; usage: Daniel Murray; variant: Daniel Alexander Payne Murray)

found: Wikipedia on line Mar 24, 2011(Daniel Alexander Payne Murray; b. Mar. 3, 1852, Baltimore, d. Mar. 31, 1925; bibliographer, author, politician, and historian, the son of a freed slave; joined the professional staff of the Library of Congress in 1871, promoted to Assistant Librarian in 1881, a position he held for 41 years)

found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Murray, Daniel (Alexander Payne); librarian, bibliographer; born 03 March 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States; worked on the Negro Literature display for the Paris Exposition, becoming established as an authority on black bibliography; catalogued 5,000 titles for the Jamestown, Virginia, Tercentenary, and assembled a list of more than 12,000 titles; developed a library of 1,488 volumes, bequeathing them to the Library of Congress; this material for some time constituted the Library of Congress' Colored Author Collection; expanded efforts into a 'Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia of the Colored Race Throughout the World' (1910); the six-volume encyclopedia composed by blacks would survey the 'Colored Race's Progress and Achievements' from antiquity to the twentieth century; died in 1925 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)