Burnham
Burnham names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Burnham WILLIAM POWER, an American soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM POWER, an American soldier, born at Scranton, Pa., in 1860. He studied at West Point from 1877 to 1880. In 1881 he enlisted as a private in the 14th Infantry, and in 1883 he was promoted from the ranks. During the Spanish-American War he served as lieutenant-colonel of the 4th Missouri Volunteers. He served also in the Philippine insurrection in 1900 and major in 1902. He was appointed a the United States Army in 1906. In the following year he was appointed a member of the general staff, serving until 1911. He held commissions in Porto Rico and in the Canal Zone, and was appointed brigadier-general in 1917, when he was assigned to the 164th Infantry Brigade of the 82d Division of the National Army. He was appointed in April 12, 1918. to be major-general From December, 1917, to October 5, 1918, he commanded the 82d Division. He was American delegate to the Inter- Allied Military Commission in Greece in 1918-1919. In the latter year he was honorably discharged as major-general, becoming colonel of infantry. He received several decorations and medals from foreign countries for his service during the World War. novel, He wrote "Three Roads to a Commission in the United States Army" and several monographs on military subjects.
Burnham DANIEL HUDSON, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL HUDSON, an American architect, born in Henderson, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1846. He studied architecture in Chicago and designed notable structures there, including the Rookery, Calumet Club, the Temple, Masonic Temple, and the Great Northern Hotel, as well as large buildings in other cities. He was Director of Works at the Chicago World's Fair. He died June 1, 1912.
Burnham CLARA LOUISE, an American story writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CLARA LOUISE, an American story writer, born in Newton, Mass., May 25, 1854. She wrote numerous novels, including "Dearly Bought" ! (1884); "Next Door" (1886); "Young Maids and Old" (1888); "Miss Bagg's Secretary" (1892); "Sweet Clover, a Romance of the White City" (1894); "The Right Princess" (1902); "The Inner Flame" (1912); "In Apple Blossom Time" (1919); ): etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's gave Daniel Hudson Burnham three sentences in 1921 and listed him chiefly by Chicago buildings, saying nothing of the 1909 Plan of Chicago he produced with Edward Bennett, which shaped the city's lakefront parks and boulevards and is now the work he is best known for, along with New York's Flatiron Building and Washington's Union Station. Several of the structures the entry names are gone: the Masonic Temple, briefly among the tallest buildings in the world, was demolished in 1939, while the Rookery survives as a restored landmark. Burnham's reputation has swung more than once, attacked by mid-century modernists for the neoclassicism of the 1893 fair he directed and revived for a wide public by Erik Larson's 1903-set bestseller "The Devil in the White City" (2003). Clara Louise Burnham, then still publishing, has passed almost entirely out of print, though her novels are freely readable online; the soldier William Power Burnham is remembered, if at all, only as a divisional commander of 1918.
Written for this edition, 2026.