Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending
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Spofford served as the Librarian of Congress from 1864 to 1897, a tenure that saw the expansion of the library's collections and notable changes in its methods of collection development. According t… See more

• Autobiography. Poor Richard. Letters. (New York, D. Appleton and company, (1899)
• A book for all readers, (New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons, (1900)
• The coming of the white man, and the founding of the natio… See more

While doing research on Spofford, John Y. Cole discovered that while Ainsworth's ashes were interred at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., his tombstone was blank, although his wife's name was t… See more

• Malone (1935). Dictionary of American biography. Vol. XVII. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Putnam, Herbert; Blackwell, Henry B, eds. (1909). Ainsworth Rand Spofford, 1825-1908 : a memorial meeting at … See more

• "Spofford, Ainsworth Rand" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
• Works by Ainsworth Rand Spofford at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Ainsworth Rand Spofford at Internet Archive… See more