Barlow
Barlow names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Barlow Joel, an American poet and politician
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Joel, an American poet and politician. He was born at Reading, Connecticut, in 1755 and was graduated at Yale College during the Revolutionary War. Barlow was a young soldier, a wit, a chaplain, an editor, a lawyer, an agent for a land company, a merchant, an American consul at Algiers, and in 1811 minister plenipotentiary to France. While seeking an interview with Napoleon in Poland, he died in a village near Cracow, 1812. His name appears among the early writers of American verse, as the author of the Columbiad. He wrote also a number of humorous poems. The most noted is Hasty Pudding from which we quote a few lines: I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense and my evening meal-- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ev'n in thy native regions, how I blush To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush!
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOEL, an American poet and statesman, born in Reading, Conn., March 24, 1754; published political works and poems, which contain many philosophical and political dissertations, "The Vision of Columbus" (1787) was extended into "The Columbiad," a long epic (1807). He also wrote "The Conspiracy of Kings" (1792), and the celebrated poem, "Hasty Pudding." He died near Cracow, Poland, Dec. 24, 1812, while on his way to meet Napoleon I. in his capacity as commissioner to the French Emperor.
Barlow FRANCIS CHANNING, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS CHANNING, an American military officer, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1834; graduated from Harvard College in 1855; studied law in New York, and practiced there. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th Regiment, New York State National Guard. He was promoted Lieutenant after three months of service; Colonel during the siege of Yorktown; distinguished himself in the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines, for which he was promoted Brigadier-General; fought in almost every subsequent battle of the Army of the Potomac. He was severely wounded at Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, and at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. He was mustered out of the service with the rank of Major-General of volunteers. In 1860-1868, he was Secretary of State of New York; in 1871 became Attorney- General; and in 1873 resumed law practice in New York. He died in New York City, Jan. 11, 1896.
Barlow PETER, an English physicist and mathematician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PETER, an English physicist and mathematician, born at Norwich in 1776. He was Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich for a period of 40 years. In 1823, he was elected a Fellow the Royal Society, and in 1825 reof ceived from it the Copley medal for his researches in magnetism. In 1829 he was admitted a member of the French Institute. His greatest work is the "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary." He was also the author of "Machinery and Manufactures of Great Britain" (1837); "Force and Rapidity of Locomotives" (1838); and "Essay and Magnetic Attraction," one of the first works in which the phenomena of magnetism were distinctly enunciated. He died in 1862.
Barlow JANE, an Irish poet and story writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JANE, an Irish poet and story writer, born in County Dublin Her popular books inabout 1857. clude "Irish Idylls" (1892); "Bogland Studies," "Kerrigan's Quality," "Walled Out, or Eschatology in a Bog," "The Mockers of the Shallow Waters" at Lisconnel" (1893); "Strangers (1895); "Irish Ways" (1911); "Flaws" (1912); etc. She died in 1917.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
These are settled biographies, and the facts hold up, with small corrections: Joel Barlow's birthplace is spelled Redding, Connecticut, and modern sources give his birth as 1754 (Collier's date) rather than the 1755 printed by Aiton's; he died at Zarnowiec, near Krakow, caught in the wreckage of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. His Washington estate, Kalorama, survives only as the name of an embassy district, and The Columbiad is now read by specialists while the mock-heroic 'Hasty Pudding' keeps a place in anthologies of early American verse. Peter Barlow has outlasted his 'Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary': the Barlow lens is still sold to amateur astronomers, and Barlow's wheel is taught as an ancestor of the electric motor. Francis Channing Barlow is remembered chiefly for Barlow's Knoll at Gettysburg and for prosecuting the Tweed Ring as New York's attorney-general, while Jane Barlow, a bestseller when Collier's wrote in 1921, went out of print and has since been revisited by scholars of Irish writing.
Written for this edition, 2026.