Anderson
Anderson names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Anderson JOHN FISHER, American physician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN FISHER, American physician, born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1873. He was educated in the public schools of this city and studied medicine at the University of Virginia and also in Vienna and Liverpool. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health and Marine Service in 1898 and did duty in connection with the yellow fever. After acting as quarantine inspector and immigrant inspector at several ports, he was sanitary observer in several cities in Europe from 1899 to 1901. From 1902 to 1909 he was assistant director of the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, being appointed director in 1916. He was also assistant professor of hygiene in Rutgers College. One of the most eminent of American bacteriologists, he wrote many articles on his investigations into the cause of diseases.
Anderson ROBERT, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an American military officer, noted for his defense of Fort Sumter, where the first gun was fired in the Civil War. He was born near Louisville, Ky., June 14, 1805; was graduated at West Point, and served in the Black Hawk, Seminole, and Mexican Wars. He was promoted major in 1857; took command of the troops in Charleston harbor in November, 1860; removed his forces from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, Dec. 26; was invested there by the Confederates who bombarded the fort April 12-13, 1861; and evacuated the fort April 14. He was promoted Brigadier-General in 1861, and was retired in 1863, with the rank of brevet Major- General. He died in Nice, France, Oct 27, 1871.
Anderson a city of South Carolina and the county-seat of Anderson co
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of South Carolina and the county-seat of Anderson co. It is about 100 miles N. W. of Raleigh, on the Blue Ridge and the Charleston and Western Carolina railroads. The city is in an important cotton-growing and agricultural region, and has also extensive industries, including cottonseed mills, fertilizer factories, flour mills, machine shops, etc. There are excellent schools and libraries, a city hall, a hospital, and a county court house. Power is furnished to the city by a large electric power station on the Seneca river, 10 miles from the city. Pop. (1910) 9,654; (1920) 10,570.
Anderson EDWIN HATFIELD, an American librarian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN HATFIELD, an American librarian, born in Zionville, Ind., in 1861. He graduated from Wabash College in 1883 and afterward studied at Columbia University and at the New York State Library School. He was cataloguer of the Newberry Library of Chicago and in the Carnegie Free Library in Braddock, Pa. In 1885 he organized and became librarian of the Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, acting in that capacity until 1904. In the following year he became the director of the New York State Library and Library School and in 1913 was appointed Director of the New York Public Library.
Anderson WILLIAM HAMILTON, American temperance advocate
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HAMILTON, American temperance advocate, born in Carlinville, Ill., Aug. 8, 1874; studied at Blackburn College and University of Michigan; taught school 1892-1894, and practiced law at Carlinville, 1896-1900. He became attorney for the Anti-Saloon League of Ill., Jan. 1, 1900, and from that time on has devoted his time wholly In 1914 he to the temperance cause. became State Superintendent of the New In York State Anti-Saloon League. 1920, he provoked considerable controversy by an attack upon certain members of the Catholic church whom he charged with obstructing the operation of prohibition laws.
Anderson MARY (MRS. A
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY (MRS. A. DE NAVARRO), an American actress, born in Sacramento, Cal., July 28, 1859. She played for the first time at Louisville, in 1875, in the character of Juliet. Her success was marked and immediate, and during the following years she played with increasing popularity in the prin. cipal cities of the United States in various rôles. In 1883 she appeared at the Lyceum Theater, in London, and speedily became well known in England. In 1890, one year after retiring from the stage, she married A. de Navarro of New York.
Anderson city in Indiana
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
city in Indiana, countyseat of Madison co.; on several railroads and a hydraulic canal with a fall of nearly 50 feet; 36 miles N. E. of Indianapolis. It is principally engaged in manufactuing, and has National banks, public library, high school, daily and weekly newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 22,476; (1920) 29,767.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the seven, two names still carry weight: Major Robert Anderson, whose surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861 opened the Civil War, returned to the fort to raise the same flag on April 14, 1865, and the ruined work is now a National Park Service site; and John Fisher Anderson's Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, which was renamed the National Institute of Health in 1930 and grew into today's NIH. The temperance advocate William Hamilton Anderson, praised here in 1921 as devoted wholly to the cause, was convicted of forgery in 1924 and served time in Sing Sing, and the Prohibition he enforced was repealed in 1933. Mary Anderson, the Sacramento-born Juliet, never went back to the stage after her 1889 retirement and died in Broadway, Worcestershire, in 1940, while Edwin Hatfield Anderson ran the New York Public Library until 1934 and is remembered chiefly by librarians. The two towns diverged: Anderson, Indiana, became a General Motors parts city, peaking near 70,000 before the plants closed and falling back to roughly 55,000, while Anderson, South Carolina, lost its cotton mills and now holds about 28,000 -- and Collier's placement of it 100 miles northwest of Raleigh was wrong by well over a hundred miles.
Written for this edition, 2026.