Allen
Allen names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Allen HENRY J., an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY J., an American statesman, born in Warren co., Pa., in 1868. He was educated at Baker University and Washington College. In 1894 he began newspaper work and soon became owner of several daily newspapers in Kansas, the most important of these being the Wichita "Daily Beacon." He was president of the Kansas State Board of Charities for five years. During the World War he went to France under the auspices of the Red Cross and during his absence was nominated and elected Governor of Kansas. His prompt action during the coal-mining strike in the winter of 1919 attracted attention throughout the country. In response to his call volunteers from all classes undertook to man the mines abandoned by the miners. Following this there was passed a measure providing for an industrial court for the prevention of strikes. He was mentioned ven as a candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1920. In the same year he was re-elected Governor.
Allen CHARLES HERBERT, an American diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES HERBERT, an American diplomatist, born in Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; was graduated at Amherst College in 1869; served in both branches of the State Legislature, and in Congress in 1885-1889; was defeated as the Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1891; and succeeded Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in May, 1898. On the passage by Congress of the Porto Rico Tariff and Civil Government bill, in April, 1900, the President appointed him the first civil governor of the island. He became president of the American Sugar Refining Co. in 1913.
Allen ETHAN, an American Revolutionary hero
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ETHAN, an American Revolutionary hero, born at Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1737. His services in the War of Independence, as Colonel of the "Green Mountain Boys," capturing Fort Ticonderoga; his attack on Montreal; sufferings as a prisoner in England; skillful diplomacy in behalf of Vermont, etc., are well known. He wrote account of his captivity an (1779), “A Vindication of Vermont" (1784), and "Allen's Theology, or the Oracles of Reason" (1784), in which he declared reason to be the only oracle of man. He died near Burlington, Vt., Feb. 12. 1789.
Allen ELIZABETH AKERS, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH AKERS, an American poet, born (ELIZABETH CHASE) at Strong, Me., Oct. 9, 1832. She was married in 1860 to Paul Akers, the sculptor, who died in 1861, and in 1865 to E. M. Allen, of New York. Her first volume, "Forest Buds," appeared under the pen name of "Florence Percy" (1855). Other works: "The Silver Bridge and Other Poems" (1866); a volume of "Poems" (1866), which contains "Rock Me to Sleep, Mother"; "The High Top Sweeting and Other Poems" (1891); "The Sunset Song" (1902).
Allen JAMES LANE, an American novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES LANE, an American novelist, born near Lexington, Ky., in 1850. He graduated at Transylvania University, taught there for a time, and became subsequently Professor of Latin and English in Bethany College. His fame rests mainly upon his powerful and popular novels of manners and people in the "blue grass" region and elsewhere, the best known being "Sum mer in Arcady" (1896); "The Choir Invisible" (1897); "A Kentucky Cardinal"; "Aftermath"; "The Cathedral Singer" (1916); "The Kentucky Warbler" (1917); "The Emblem of Fidelity" (1918).
Allen GRANT (CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GRANT (CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIE ALLEN), an English naturalist, essayist, and novelist, born in Kingston, Canada, Feb. 24, 1848. He graduated from Oxford, and was professor at Queen's College, Jamaica. He became a follower of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, and was author of scientific essays in a light, attractive style. After 1883 he produced a large number of novels. Among them are "Babylon" (1885); "The Devil's Die" (1888); "Under Sealed Orders" (1896). He died Oct. 25, 1899.
Allen VIOLA, an American actress
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
VIOLA, an American actress. She was educated in New York and at the age of 15 began her stage career. She became one of the most prominent players on the American stage, appearing in Shakespearean rôles and in many of the most successful modern plays. In 1906 she married Peter Duryea.
Allen WILLIAM HENRY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HENRY, an American educator, born March 27, 1808; educated at Bowdoin College; served several colleges as Professor of Latin, Greek, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, and English Literature; President of Girard College, Philadelphia (1850-1862 and 1867-1882); and President of the American Bible Society from 1872 till his death, Aug. 29, 1882.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the eight Allens, only Ethan has kept a wide public name: his 1737 birth date is now usually given as 1738 (an Old Style dating problem), and his Burlington homestead is a Vermont historic site. The two politicians here both saw their signature work overturned or reread: Henry J. Allen's anti-strike Kansas industrial court, praised in 1921 as a national model, was gutted by the US Supreme Court in 1923, while Charles Herbert Allen, noted mildly as first civil governor of Porto Rico who later ran the American Sugar Refining Co., is now a standing exhibit in Puerto Rican accounts of colonial sugar interests (the island's official spelling changed to Puerto Rico in 1932). The literary Allens have moved in opposite directions: James Lane Allen, then a bestselling novelist of the blue grass, is now barely read, whereas Grant Allen survives chiefly for the very book Collier's omits, the scandalous New Woman novel The Woman Who Did (1895), plus his rogue-detective stories. Elizabeth Akers Allen is remembered for one much-parodied poem, Rock Me to Sleep; Viola Allen, still on stage when this was written, left it soon after and died in 1948; and William Henry Allen of Girard College has faded entirely.
Written for this edition, 2026.