Bliss
Bliss names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bliss FREDERICK JONES, an American explorer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK JONES, an American explorer, born in Mt. Lebanon, Syria, Jan. 23, 1859; son of Daniel Bliss; was graduated at Amherst College in 1880, and at the Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1887; was principal of the preparatory department of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut for three years; was appointed Explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1890, and is best known for his excavations and finds in Jerusalem in 1894-1897, and again in 1898-1900. From 1911 to 1914 he was dean for men at the University of Rochester. He was a member of the committee appointed by General Allenby to report on the condition of buried ancient buildings in Syria and Palestine in 1919. He has published "Mounds of Many Cities," "Excavations at Jerusalem," etc.
Bliss TASKER HOWARD, an American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
TASKER HOWARD, an American soldier; born in Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 31, 1853. He graduated from West Point in 1875 and from the United States Artillery School in 1884. From 1885 to 1898 he was professor of military science at the United States Naval War College. He served in Cuba and GEN. TASKER BLISS Porto Rico in the Spanish - American War and became commandant of the Army War College in 1903. He was made Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army in 1917, succeeding Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott. During the World War he represented the United States at the sessions of the Inter-Allied war conferences, and in 1919 was one of the American delegates to the Peace Conference at Paris.
Bliss CORNELIUS NEWTON, an American merchant
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CORNELIUS NEWTON, an American merchant, born in Fall River, Mass., Jan. 26, 1833; was educated in New Orleans; engaged first in commission business, in Boston, and became head of the dry goods commission house of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., New York City, in 1881. He was a member of the Pan- American Conference; Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee in 1877-1878; and Treasurer of the National Republican Committee in 1892 and 1896; declined to be a candidate for Governor of New York in 1884 and 1891; and was Secretary of the Interior Department in President McKinley's cabinet in 1897-1898. Treasurer National Republican Committec, 1900 and 1904. He died in 1911.
Bliss EDWIN ELISHA, an Ameri
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN ELISHA, an Ameri. can missionary, born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1817; graduated at Amherst College in 1837, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1842; was ordained as a missionary in 1843, 1843, and joined the American Mission in Turkey, being stationed at Trebizond, 1843-1852; Marsovan, Armenia, 1852-1856; and at Constantinople after 1856. In addition to the ordinary work of a missionary he edited, 1865-1892, the " Messenger, " published at Constantinople in the Turkish and Armenian languages, and compiled a number of text books, notably the " Bible Handbook, " in Armenian. He died in Constantinople, Turkey, Dec. 29, 1892.
Bliss DANIEL, an American missionary
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, an American missionary, born in Georgia, Vt., Aug. 17, 1823; was graduated at Amherst College in 1852, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855; was ordained a Congregational minister, Oct. 17, 1855; engaged in missionary work in Syria in 1855-1862; and in 1866 became President of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut. His publications include "Mental Philosophy" and "National Philosophy," both in Arabic. President Syrian Protestant College (1902). Ho died in Beirut, Syria, 1916.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the five men Collier's listed in 1921, three were still living; all are now long dead — Frederick Jones Bliss in 1937 and Tasker Howard Bliss in 1930, the latter having spent his last years campaigning for the League of Nations he had helped negotiate at Paris. The institution that binds the family together has changed its name: the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut, which Daniel Bliss headed from 1866 and where his son taught, was renamed the American University of Beirut in 1920, and it survives today as one of the best-known universities in the Middle East. Frederick Bliss's Jerusalem digs of 1894-1897, described here as his chief claim to fame, were long ago superseded by later work on the City of David, notably Kathleen Kenyon's excavations in the 1960s, though his 'Excavations at Jerusalem' is still cited for what it recorded of ground since built over.
Written for this edition, 2026.