Burgess
Burgess names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Burgess JOHN WILLIAM, American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN WILLIAM, American educator, born in Cornersville, Tenn., Aug. 26, 1844. He was educated University, Lebanon at Cumberland , law, Tenn., and at Amherst. He studied its practice at Springfield in and began appointed 1869. During this year he was of English Literature and Professor Political Economy at Knox College. Two years later, he studied abroad Berlin. On Göttingen, Leipsic, and his return, he became Professor of History at Amherst, and in and Political Science Science and 1876 Professor of Political Law and in 1890 dean of Constitutional of the faculty of Political Science at University, New York. Columbia professor at was Roosevelt exchange the University of Berlin 1906-1907. He published a number of books and was a frequent contributor to reviews on his , political, and legal topics. torical
Burgess (FRANK) GELETT
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
(FRANK) GELETT, an American author and artist; born in Boston, Jan. 30, 1866. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he graduated in 1887. He embraced civil engineering as a profession, and had considerable railway experience (1887-1890) in California. and In 1896 he took up literary work attention speedily attracted favorable . by Most of his writings were illustrated is of a whimsical and himself. His work humorous nature. Among his publicaand tions are "Vivette" (1897); "Goops "The Pica- How to Be Them" (1900); Bromide?" roons" (1904); "Are You a 1913) (1906); "Love in a Hurry" ( ; "Mrs. Hope's Husband" (1917); etc.
Burgess CHARLES FREDERICK, an American chemist and engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES FREDERICK, an American chemist and engineer; born in Oshkosh, Wis., June 5, 1873. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he entered its faculty as instructor and assistant professor of electrical engineering in 1895. Of an inventive turn of mind, he developed several new processes in electrolysis, and in 1904 was made investigator of electrolytic iron alloys for the Carnegie Institute and President of the Northern Chemical Engineering Laboratories. In 1910 he wrote "The Strength of the Alloys of Nickel and Copper with Electrolytic Iron."
Burgess EDWARD, an American naval architect born in West Sandwich
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, an American naval architect born in West Sandwich, Mass., June 30, 1848. He was educated at Harvard, where he graduated in 1871, and became secretary of the Boston Society of Natural History. He was instructor of entomology at Harvard from 1879 to 1883. He then became a designer of sailing yachts. In 1884 he designed the "Puritan," the winner of the America's Cup in 1885; and a year later the "Mayflower," the winner in 1886. He died in Boston, Mass., July 12, 1891.
Burgess FREDERICK, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop born in Providence
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop born in Providence, R. I., in 1853. He graduated from Brown University in 1873, from 1874 to 1875 studied at the and General Theological Seminary, afterpost-graduate ward spending a year in studies in Oxford. He was ordained priest in 1877 and served as rector of several churches in New England, Pennwas rector sylvania, and Detroit. He Church, Brooklyn, from 1898 to of Grace 1902, and in the latter year he was consecrated bishop of Long Island.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All five men were living or lately dead when Collier's compiled these notices in 1921, and each life had further to run. Gelett Burgess, described here only as a whimsical illustrator, is remembered today chiefly for the 1895 jingle "The Purple Cow" and for coining the word "blurb"; he died in 1951. Charles Frederick Burgess, the Wisconsin electrochemist, gave his name to the Burgess Battery Company, whose dry cells were a household brand for decades. John William Burgess, founder of Columbia's political science faculty, died in 1931 with his reputation clouded: his pro-German sympathies during the First World War and his hostile account of Reconstruction, once mainstream, are now studied as an example of the racial assumptions of turn-of-the-century American scholarship.
Written for this edition, 2026.