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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Obadiah Rich (November 25, 1777 January 20, 1850) was an American diplomat, bibliophile and bibliographer specializing the history of Latin America. He was credited with making the field of Americana a recognized field of scholarship by the bibliographer Nicholas Trübner. Obadiah Rich was born on Cape Cod, at Truro, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1777. He was the son of Captain Obadiah Rich (1758 1805) who commanded the brig Intrepid in the American Revolutionary War and his first wife Salome Lombard (1761 1807). He was the older brother of the…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Obadiah Rich (November 25, 1777 January 20, 1850) was an American diplomat, bibliophile and bibliographer specializing the history of Latin America. He was credited with making the field of Americana a recognized field of scholarship by the bibliographer Nicholas Trübner. Obadiah Rich was born on Cape Cod, at Truro, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1777. He was the son of Captain Obadiah Rich (1758 1805) who commanded the brig Intrepid in the American Revolutionary War and his first wife Salome Lombard (1761 1807). He was the older brother of the botanist William Rich. Obadiah Rich was elected to the Massachusetts Historical Society at the early age of 22, and helped found the Anthology Society in 1804, which later became the Boston Athenæum. President James Madison appointed him American consul in Valencia, Spain in 1816. He was consul in Madrid from 1823, and was working full time in the book trade in London by 1830. He was again resident in Madrid and in Mahon on the island of Minorca between 1834 and 1835.