Benton
Benton names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Benton GUY POTTER, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GUY POTTER, an American educator, born at Kenton, O., in 1865. He graduated from Baker University and took post-graduate courses at the University of Wooster and in Berlin. From 1890 to 1895 he was superintendent of schools at Fort Scott, Kan., and in 1895-1896 hitte superintendent of public instruction, Kansas. He served as professor of history and sociology at Baker University from 1896 to 1899. From the latter year to 1902 he was president of the Upper Iowa University. In 1902 he was appointed president of Miami University, serving until 1911, when he became president of the University of Vermont. He was a member of the Kansas State Board of Education, president of the Southeastern Kansas Teachers' Association, and a member and officer of several other educational societies. From 1910 he was secretary of the National Association of State Universities. During the World War he was in the service of the Y. M. C. A. in the city of Paris. He wrote "The Real College" (1909).
Benton THOMAS HART, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS HART, an American statesman, born near Hillsboro, N. C., March 14, 1782; settled in Tennessee, where he studied law, and was elected to the Legislature. In 1812 he raised a regiment of volunteers, and also served on General Jackson's staff. On the admission of Missouri as a State, he was chosen United States Senator in 1820, and served 30 years. A determined opponent of Calhoun's nullification scheme, he afterward supported Jackson in his war on the United States bank, and earned the sobriquet of "Old Bullion" by his opposition to the paper currency. He published "A Thirty Years' View, or a History of the Working of the American Government from 1820 to 1850" (2 vols., 1854-1856) and "An Abridgment of the Debates of Congress from 1789 to 1856" (15 vols., 1857). He died in Washington, April 10, 1858.
Benton a city of Illinois
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Illinois, the countyseat of Franklin co. It is on the Illinois Central, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroads. There are important industries, including the manufacture of stoves. There are also extensive coal mines in the neighborhood. Pop. (1910) 2,675; (1920) 7,201.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's left Guy Potter Benton in 1921 as president of the University of Vermont and a Y.M.C.A. worker in wartime Paris; he went on to head the University of the Philippines in the early 1920s and died in 1927, and he is now a largely forgotten figure. Thomas Hart Benton's career needs no revision, but his reputation has shifted: the 1921 entry stops at "Old Bullion" and the bank war, while modern readers meet him chiefly as one of the eight senators profiled in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage" (1956), honoured for the Unionist stand on slavery that cost him his Senate seat in 1851; his great-nephew, the muralist of the same name (1889-1975), is now the more famous Thomas Hart Benton. Benton, Illinois, had just grown from 2,675 to 7,201 on the coal boom Collier's described; the mines and the stove works are gone and the town has roughly 6,700 people today, fewer than in 1920, its best-known claim now being George Harrison's 1963 visit to his sister there.
Written for this edition, 2026.