Lexington Library (Lexington, Ky.)

found: Ranck, G. History of Lexington, Kentucky, 1872:p. 194 etc. (Lexington Library; organized during 1795 for the benefit of the citizens of Lexington and the students of Transylvania Seminary; called Transylvania Library when opened in Jan. 1796 in one of the buildings of Transylvania Seminary; name changed to Lexington Library in 1798 when the collection was moved to a more central location in the drug store of Andrew McCalla, the first librarian; incorporated as Lexington Library Nov. 29, 1800; increased in size with the addition of 1,135 juvenile books collected by an association of ambitious and energetic boys in 1810, and in 1824 when the Lexington Atheneum turned over its library collection; constructed its own library building in 1865 after suffering losses in three fires at three locations)

found: Wikipedia, July 9, 2013(Lexington Library Company (est. 1801); its collections incorporated into the Lexington Public Library in 1905, along with those of the Transylvania Library (est. 1795))