Bailey
Bailey names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bailey LIBERTY HYDE, an American horticulturist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LIBERTY HYDE, an American horticulturist, born in South Haven, Mich., March 15, 1858; graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1882; was associate to Dr. Asa Gray at Harvard University in 1882-1883; Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening in the Michigan Agricultural College in 1883-1888; and in the last year became Professor of Horticulture in Cornell University. In 1903 he became Dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the experimental station, retiring in 1913. He was an associate editor of the revised edition of "Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia" (1892- 1896), and editor of "American Gardening." He published a large number of technical works, including "Annals of Horticulture," "Evolution of Our Native Fruits," "Principles of Fruit Growing," "Text-book of Agriculture," "Cyclopedia of American Horticulture" (1900-1902); "Cyclopedia American Agriculture" (1907-1909).
Bailey JOSEPH WELDON, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH WELDON, an American public official, born in Copiah co., Miss., in 1863. He received a common school education, and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1883. In 1885 he removed to Gainesville, Tex. He entered politics and was a member of the 52d and 56th Congresses, taking a prominent part in the deliberations of the House of Representatives and quickly becoming one of the most conspicuous members. He was elected Senator in 1907. In 1911, before the expiration of his term, he resigned. Though later withdrawing his resignation, he refused to stand for re-election. In the Senate he was one of the leaders of the Democratic party. He was a candidate for Governor of Texas in 1920, but was defeated.
Bailey WILLIAM WHITMAN, an American botanist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM WHITMAN, an American botanist, born in West Point, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1843. He was educated at Brown and Harvard, having been a pupil of Prof. Asa Gray. In 1867 he was botanist of the United States Geological Survey of the 40th parallel; in 1867-1869 assistant librarian of the Providence Athanæum. He was appointed Instructor in Botany at Brown University in 1877, and became professor there in 1881. He published "Botanical Collectors' Handbook" (1881); "Botanizing" (1899); "Poems" (1910). Died Feb. 20, 1914.
Bailey James Montgomery
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
James Montgomery. See Danbury News Man
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it treated Liberty Hyde Bailey as a retired professor, having stepped down from Cornell's agriculture deanship in 1913 — but his largest work lay ahead: he chased plants in the West Indies and South America into his eighties, founded the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell in 1935 and gave it his herbarium and library, and lived until Christmas Day 1954, dying at 96. His "Hortus", first issued in 1930, survives in revised form as the standard reference on cultivated plants in North America. Joseph Weldon Bailey, still politically active when the entry closed with his 1920 defeat for governor of Texas, died in 1929; his son of the same name later sat in Congress. James Montgomery Bailey, the Danbury News Man, had already been dead since 1894 when Aiton's cross-referenced him, and his brand of newspaper humour has largely faded from print.
Written for this edition, 2026.