Baker
Baker names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Baker MOSES NELSON, an American civil engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MOSES NELSON, an American civil engineer, born in Enosburg, Vt., Jan. 26, 1864; was graduated at the University of Vermont in 1886; was ods in the administration of the city government attracted wide attention. On March 7 , 1916, he was appointed Secretary of War to succeed Lindley M. NEWTON DIEHL BAKER Garrison, who had resigned. He was Secretary of War during the administration of President Wilson, and his administration of the War Department during the World War was widely criticized. He was, however, supported by President Wilson, who resisted all de mands for his removal. The criticisms made against Mr. Baker were not ditions, but rather to a lack of administrarected toward his integrity or good intentive ability. During his term of office he made several tours for the inspection of the American Expeditionary Forces Freedom-A Collection of Addresses" (1917). editor for several years of the "Manual in France. He wrote "Frontiers of of American Waterworks," and associate editor and later editor of "Engineering News." He wrote "Sewage Purification ing in America," "Sewerage and Sewage Purification," ," etc., contributed to the Standard Dictionary, and is the author of various works on engineering, sanitation, etc. an
Baker SIR SAMUEL WHITE, an English traveler
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR SAMUEL WHITE, an English traveler, born in 1821. He resided some years in Ceylon, and, in 1861, began his African travels, which lasted several years, in the upper Nile regions, and resulted, among other discoveries, in that of Albert Nyanza Lake in 1864, and of the exit of the White Nile from it. Upon his return to England he was knighted. In 1869 he returned to Africa as head of an expedition sent by the Khedive of Egypt to annex and open up to trade a large part of the newly explored country, being raised to the dignity of Pasha. He returned in 1873, having finished his work. His writings include "Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon," "The Albert Nyanza, etc.," "The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia," "Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa," "Cyprus as I saw it in 1879," "Cast Up by the Sea" (1869). He died Dec. 30, 1893.
Baker RAY STANNARD, an Mich
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RAY STANNARD, an Mich., in 1870. After graduating from the Michigan Agricultural College in 1889, and carrying on special studies in law and literature at the University of work and was for several years assistant Michigan, he engaged in newspaper editor of " McClure's Magazine," from 1906 to 1915, and was one of the editors of the " American Magazine." He wrote the government in American cities and a series of articles on the corruption of did much to bring about improved conditions in municipal government. His published writings include "Following the Color Line" (1908); "New Ideals in Healing" (1909); "The Spiritual Unrest" (1910). Under the pen name of David Grayson he wrote "Adventures in Contentment" (1907); "Adventures in Friendship" (1910); "Great Possessions" (1917).
Baker SIR BENJAMIN, an English engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR BENJAMIN, an English engineer, born near Bath, in 1840. In 1877 he superintended the removal of Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to London. In conjunction with Sir John Fowler he drew the plans for the great bridge over the Firth of Forth. He also did important work in connection with the Assouan dam, the Blackwall tunnel, the Tower Bridge (London) and the (London) Metropolitan Railway System. He has written numerous scientific treatises , including "Long Span Iron Bridges," "Suspension Versus Cantiliver Bridges," "The Strength of Beams," and " Transportation and Re-erection of Cleopatra's Needle." He died in 1917.
Baker a city of Oregon
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Oregon, the countyseat of Baker co., on the Powder river and on the line of the Oregon Railroad and avigation Company. It is the center of an important mining region and has also an extensive trade in lumber, wool, live stock, and mineral products. The surrounding country produces agricultural products in large quantities. There is an opera house, a Masonic temple, a hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 6,742; (1920) 7,729.
Baker NEWTON DIEHL, American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NEWTON DIEHL, American public official, born in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 1871. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1892, studied law at Washington and Lee University, and practiced law in Martinsburg, W. Va., in 1897. From 1902 to 1912 he was city solicitor of Cleveland, O., and was mayor from 1912 to 1914. His introduction of several radical meth- 26-Vol. I-Cyc American author, born in Lansing,
Baker RAY STANNARD
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RAY STANNARD. During the American State Department, and afterward accompanied President Wilson to Europe as head of the press bureau. His subsequent publications include: "What Wilson Did at Paris" (1920) and "Wood- (1922). row Wilson and World Settlement"
Baker MOUNT, an occasionally active volcano in Whatcom co
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MOUNT, an occasionally active volcano in Whatcom co., Wash., belonging to the Cascade Range; very active in 1880; elevation, 10,827 feet.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the eight Bakers Collier's gathered in 1921, Ray Stannard Baker rose furthest: the muckraker and Wilson press chief went on to write an eight-volume life of Wilson and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1940, though his gentler David Grayson books are now largely forgotten. Newton D. Baker, whose wartime management Collier's called widely criticized for a lack of administrative ability, was rehabilitated enough to be talked of as a Democratic presidential possibility in 1932; he died in 1937. Sir Benjamin Baker's Forth Bridge, described here only in passing, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, while Sir Samuel White Baker is now read as much for the imperial politics of his Khedival expedition as for finding Lake Albert. The two places have moved on quietly: the Oregon town readopted its older name of Baker City in 1989, and Mount Baker, still quiet since steam activity at Sherman Crater in 1975, is better known today for the record snowfall measured at its ski area in the winter of 1998-99.
Written for this edition, 2026.