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Notes on Death
Joseph Hardcastle Vance
Regents' Proceedings 691
Regents' Proceedings 691
The Assistant Librarian, in charge of the Law Library, Joseph Hardcastle Vance, LL.B., died on Dec. 23, 1900, after a brief illness. No officer now in the University had so early a connection with it as he. After serving in a clerical capacity for some time, he was made Librarian in 1854, and continued in that office two years. He was graduated from the Law Department in 1861. In 1883 he was appointed to the position, which he held at the time of his decease. He was faithful in the discharge of his duties, and was very helpful to the law students in their use of the library.