He also made the acquaintance of numerous important figures in the library profession, and was especially close to William Frederick Poole.

[6][7] He wrote professional articles and his book Eclectic Card Catalog Rules, based on the work of Karl Dziatzko as well as numerous English language librarians like Melvil Dewey, was published by Charles Ammi Cutter in 1890.

[12] The winning entry was a neo-Renaissance structure from the Wisconsin architecture firm of Ferry & Clas, which was constructed at a cost of $780,000.

He never provided a motive for his theft, but it was widely speculated, and argued by his lawyer, that the financial demands of Linderfelt's prestigious position in society were not met by his modest public salary.

[5] However, following the revelation that Milwaukee School Board secretary A.H. Schattenberg had embezzled over $50,000, and his subsequent suicide, a citywide audit was conducted.

However, local newspapers objected, especially following revelations of the previous investigation and that Linderfelt had stolen nearly twice as much as initially thought, over $9,000.

On July 12, Linderfelt pleaded nolo contendere and Judge A. Scott Sloan, saying that "further punishment would be wrong", issued a suspended sentence.

Within days, upon the urging of Mayor Somers, the district attorney scrambled to find new charges to file against Linderfelt and ordered his arrest in Boston.

[18] Instead of going to Paris, his eldest son, Karl E. Linderfelt, dropped out of Beloit College and lived with uncles in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

He joined the Colorado National Guard and was one of the commanders at the Ludlow Massacre, noted for his aggression and profanity and for assaulting and allegedly murdering strike leader Louis Tikas.

[2] His daughter Anna Linderfelt Fisher became a Red Cross worker during World War I, and an advisor to Faisal I of Iraq.

[20] In the article, Wiegand expressed hope that librarians would remember Linderfelt "to provide some balance against the too-frequent eulogistic treatment accorded the Winsors, Pooles, and Deweys of library history" and that the ALA would officially acknowledge Linderfelt as a past ALA President for the sake of "historical accuracy".