Bartlett
Bartlett names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bartlett PAUL WAYLAND, an American sculptor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PAUL WAYLAND, an American sculptor, born in New Haven, Conn., in 1865. He was educated in the public schools of New Haven and Boston and studied sculpture in Paris. At the age of 14 he exhibited a bust of his grandmother in the Paris salon. He made many notable pieces of sculpture, including the statue of General Joseph Warren in Boston, the statue of Lafayette in Paris, which was a gift to France from the school children of the United States, a statue of Columbus in the Congressional Library, six statues on the front of the New York Public Library, and a statue of Benjamin Franklin. His works are found in many of the leading art galleries in the United States and abroad. He was a member of several societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Bartlett SAMUEL COLCORD, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL COLCORD, an American educator, born in Salisbury, N. H., Nov. 25, 1817; was educated at Dartmouth College, teaching there and at Andover; was pastor of a church at Monson, Mass.; subsequently Professor of Philosophy in Western Reserve University, Ohio. He afterward became pastor of a church at Manchester, N. H., and later of the New England Church in Chicago. In 1858 he was made Professor of Biblical Literature in the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he remained until 1873. In 1877 he became president of Dartmouth College, resigning in 1892. He was author of "From Egypt to Palestine" (1879), and also wrote a part of "Smith's Dictionary of the Bible." He died in Hanover, N. H., Nov. 16, 1898.
Bartlett ROBERT ABRAM, an American explorer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT ABRAM, an American explorer, born at Brigus, Newfoundland, in 1875. After several years spent at sea he took part in the Peary expedition of 1897-1898 as commander of the vessel. This was followed by several other trips, including the journey with Peary in 1905-1909, which ended in the discovery of the North Pole. He followed this with several other expeditions to the Arctic regions, including the Crocker Land Relief Expedition to North Greenland in 1917. During the World War he was marine superintendent of the Army Transport Service. He was awarded several medals for his services in explorations and received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1920.
Bartlett SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD, an English politician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR ELLIS ASHMEAD, an English politician, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., of American parents, in 1849; graduated at Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1872; admitted to the bar in 1877; was a member of Parliament from Eye division of Suffolk in 1880-1885; and from Ecclesall division of Suffolk since 1895; was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1885-1886, and 1886-1892. He is the author of "The Battlefields of Thessaly" (1897). He died in London, 1902.
Bartlett JOHN, an American author and publisher
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American author and publisher, born in Plymouth, Mass., June 14, 1820; became a publisher in Cambridge in 1836, and senior partner in the Boston publishing house of Little, Brown & Co., in 1878. His works include "Familiar Quotations" (1854); "The Shakespeare Phrase-Book" (1882); "Catalogue of Books on Angling, Including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, etc." (1882); "The Shakespeare Index"; "The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare's Dramatic Works" (1894); and "Poems." He died Dec. 3, 1905.
Bartlett FREDERICK ORIN, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK ORIN, an American writer, born in Haverhill, Mass., in 1876. He was educated in the public schools and at Harvard University. For several years he was engaged in newspaper work. His best known books are "The Web of the Golden Spider" (1909); "The Lady of the Lane" (1912); "The Triflers" (1917). He was a frequent contributor of short stories to magazines.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's states flatly in 1921 that the Peary journey of 1905-1909, with Robert Bartlett as ship's captain, "ended in the discovery of the North Pole"; that claim is now widely doubted, since Peary's navigational records cannot support the speeds he reported and Bartlett himself was turned back some 150 miles short of the pole. Collier's also passes over Bartlett's most famous ordeal, the 1913-14 wreck of the Karluk in the Arctic ice, after which he trekked across the ice and over Siberia to fetch rescue for the survivors; he went on sailing north until his death in 1946, and his schooner Effie M. Morrissey survives, restored, as the Ernestina. John Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations" of 1854, listed here as one book among his several, long outlived every other work on this page and is still revised and reissued under his name. Paul Wayland Bartlett, described in the present tense as a member of learned societies, died in 1925; his equestrian Lafayette still stands in Paris and his figures on the New York Public Library facade are still in place.
Written for this edition, 2026.