Wilson also worked with Katherine McCall, a graduate of the New York State Library School at Albany, during the summer of 1901 changing the classification system from a fixed location to the more modern “relative” Dewey arrangement that was being adopted by librarians across the nation.
St. Louis | Woodrow Wilson | St. Louis Cardinals | Louis Armstrong | Louis Vuitton | Robert Louis Stevenson | Louis XIV of France | St. Louis County, Minnesota | Joe Louis | Round-robin tournament | Louis IX of France | Harold Wilson | Louis Pasteur | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Saint Louis University | Washington University in St. Louis | Pete Wilson | Jacques-Louis David | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Louis XIII of France | Louis XV of France | Brian Wilson | St. Louis Rams | Saint Louis | Louis XVI of France | Louis Agassiz | Wilson | Edmund Wilson | Louis the Pious | St. Louis Blues |
While Downs looked to heroes Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson for guidance when challenges were encumbered, it was the influences of this his distant cousin, Mr. Louis Round Wilson, that formed Downs’ librarian leadership foundation.