To this day, Linderfelt is absent from official ALA lists of its past presidents.[1][2] First librarian of the Milwaukee Public Library, 1880-1892 William Isaac Fletcher May 22, 1892 – 1892 Editor of ALA Index to General Literature. Melvil Dewey 1892–1893 See above. Josephus Nelson Larned 1893–1894 Henry Munson Utley 1894–1895 John Cotton Dana 1895–1896 Founder of the Newark Museum, 1909.