Kelsie B. Harder

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Kelsie Brown Harder (August 23, 1922 – April 9, 2007) was an American professor and

Biography

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Harder was born in

He headed the American Name Society and edited their publication. He also headed the usage committee of the American Dialect Society. He served as director of the Place Name Survey of the United States, and in 1990 gave the keynote address at the Library of Congress on the 100th anniversary of the United States Board on Geographic Names.

Harder died of

• John Crowe Ransom as Poet, Economist and Critic (1950)
• Style and Meaning in the Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart (1954)
• Charles Dickens Names His Characters (1959)
• International Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976)
• Names and Their Varieties: A Collection of Essays in Onomastics (1986)
• A Dictionary of American Proverbs (with Wolfgang Mieder and Stewart Kingsbury, 1991)
• Claims to Name: Toponyms of St. Lawrence County (with Mary H. Smallman, 1993)
• Names of Franklin County, New York (with Carol Payment Poole, 2008)

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