Boise
Boise names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Boise JAMES ROBINSON, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES ROBINSON, an American educator, born in Blandford, Mass., Jan. 27, 1815; was graduated at Brown University, in 1840; and served there as tutor of Latin and Greek and as Professor of Greek till 1850. In 1862, he became Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in the University of Michigan; in 1868, was called to the same chair in the University of Chicago; and, in 1877, became Professor of New Testa ment Interpretation in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. On the establishment of the new University of Chicago, he was made Professor-Emeritus of New Testament Greek. He published several classical text books, including editions with original notes of Xenophon's "Anabasis" and the first six books of Homer's "Iliad," besides "Notes" on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans, etc. He died in Chicago, Feb. 9, 1895.
Boise city, capital of the State of Idaho
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
city, capital of the State of Idaho, and county-seat of Ada co.; on the Boise river and the Oregon Short Line railroad; 45 miles S. W. of Idaho City. It occupies the site of a former trading 554 post of the Hudson's Bay Company; is in 347 an agricultural and a rich mining region; and is supplied with pure hot water from 212 a flowing boiling well. It contains the State Capitol, erected in 1885-1887, a penitentiary, United States Assay Office, 52 State Library, National banks, public library, excellent schools, hospitals, and inother public buildings. Its industries clude meat packing, stone quarrying, and manufactures of cigars, cement, etc. It is an important wool market. Pop. (1890) 2,311; (1910) 17,358; (1920) 21,393.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's counted 21,393 residents in 1920, Boise was a wool market and mining supply town; the 2020 census put the city at about 235,000, with roughly 750,000 in the metropolitan area, and it has repeatedly ranked among the fastest-growing places in the United States. Meat packing and cigar making gave way to technology and government: Micron Technology, founded in Boise in 1978, and Hewlett-Packard's printer operations became the area's industrial anchors. The two institutions Collier's listed have become museums — the territorial penitentiary closed in 1973 and the U.S. Assay Office shut in 1933, both now historic sites. The "pure hot water from a flowing boiling well" is the one continuity: Boise still runs a geothermal district heating system, among the largest in the country, warming the Capitol and downtown buildings. The other Boise here, the Greek scholar James Robinson Boise, needs no updating beyond his 1895 death notice.
Written for this edition, 2026.