Butler
Butler names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Butler BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer and soldier
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American lawyer and soldier, born in Deerfield, N. H., Nov. 5, 1818; 1818: studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, and became distinguished as a criminal lawyer and politician. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1853, of the State Senate in 1859-1860, and a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1860, which met at Charleston and adjourned to Baltimore. He supported the nomination of John C. Breckenridge, which rendered him so unpopular in the North that he was defeated for Governor of Massachusetts in that year. Butler had risen to the rank of Brigadier-General of militia; and, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he marched with the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, and, after a check at Big Bethel, was appointed to the command of Baltimore and of eastern Virginia, with his headquarters at Fort Monroe. In February, 1862, he commanded the military forces sent from Boston to Ship Island, near the mouth of the Mississippi; and, after New Orleans had surrendered to the naval forces under Farragut, he held military possession of the city. Relieved of his command, he acted under Gen. Grant in his operations against Petersburg and Richmond in 1865. Returning to Massachusetts at the end of the war, he took an active part in politics as an extreme radical, advocated the impeachment of President Johnson, and in 1866-1875 was a member of Congress. In 1877 and 1879 he was defeated as candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but in 1882 was elected by a large majority. In 1884 he ran for the Presidency as the candidate of the Greenback and Anti-Monopolist parties, but was defeated, carrying no State. He published "The Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler" (1892). He died in the first part in 1663, he spent 17 years Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1893.
Butler SAMUEL, an English satirist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL, an English satirist, born in Strensham, Worcestershire, in February, 1612. He was educated at Oxford or Cambridge, occupied his leisure in studying music and painting, be- library; daily and weekly periodicals, came a man of wide and curious learning, and gained his living as secretary and clerk to aristocratic personages. His famous poem, "Hudibras," a witty and sharp satire on the Puritans, secured instant favor with the King and the public; yet after the appearance of in poverty and obscurity. The second and third divisions of "Hudibras" appeared in 1664 and 1678. The general design of the great poem was derived from "Don Quixote." The situations of the mock epic are few but ludicrous, and the whole canvas is embellished with imagination, raillery, subtle casuistry, brilliant epigrams, and sparkling wit. He died in London, Sept. 25, 1680.
Butler NICHOLAS MURRAY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NICHOLAS MURRAY, an American educator, born in Elizabeth, N. J., April 2, 1862. He was graduated at Columbia in 1882, where he became Assistant in Philosophy (1885), Adjunct Professor (1886), Dean of Faculty of Philosophy (1889), and Professor of Philosophy and Education (1890). He founded the New York College for Training of Teachers, and has written works on education. He became President of Columbia University in 1902. In recent years he was very active in the affairs of the Republican party, being prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency in 1920. He was a member of many domestic and foreign learned societies, received numerous honorary degrees and foreign decorations, and published many addresses, essays, and reviews.
Butler HOWARD CROSBY, American educator and archæologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HOWARD CROSBY, American educator and archæologist; born in Croton Falls, N. Y., March 7, 1872. He graduated from Princeton University, and later pursued special studies at the Columbia School of Architecture and at the American Schools of Classical Studies in Rome and in Athens. In 1899, 1904, and 1909, he was at the head of archæological expeditions in Syria. He became professor of the history of architecture at Princeton in 1905. He wrote many articles for archæological journals and notable books on "Scotland's Ruined Abbeys" (1900) and "The Story of Athens" (1902).
Butler ELLIS PARKER, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELLIS PARKER, an American author; born in Muscatine, Ia., in 1869. The vein of humor that he opened up in his writings, dating from the publication of "Pigs Is Pigs" in 1906, appealed strongly to the public, and his books and magazine e articles have proved proved very popular. Among the best known his books are Incubator Baby" (1906); "Cheerful Smugglers" (1908); "Adventures of a Suburbanite" (1911); "The Jack-Knife Man" (1913); and "Dominie Dean, a Tale of the Mississippi" (1917).
Butler a borough of Pennsylvania
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of Pennsylvania, the county-seat of Butler co. It is on Conequenessing creek, and on the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh and Western, the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh, and the Bessemer and Lake Erie railroads. It is the center of an important mining and natural gas region. The chief industries are the manufacturing of cars, glass, flour, silk, brass and iron beds, etc. There is a court house, a hospital, parks, and a public library. Pop. (1910) 20,728; (1920) 23,778.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could describe Nicholas Murray Butler only as "prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency in 1920"; he went on to preside over Columbia until 1945 and to share the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Jane Addams. Howard Crosby Butler, listed here for his Syrian expeditions, died in 1922 while directing the Princeton excavations at Sardis in Asia Minor, the work he is now chiefly remembered for. Benjamin F. Butler's record has been re-weighted rather than revised: modern historians dwell less on his Massachusetts campaigns than on his 1861 ruling at Fort Monroe that escaped slaves were "contraband of war," a decision that helped push emancipation forward, even as white Southerners' name for him, "Beast Butler," clung to him for decades. The Pennsylvania borough has gone the other way from the growth the entry records: about 23,778 people in 1920, roughly 13,000 today, though in 1940 the town's American Bantam works built the first jeep prototype.
Written for this edition, 2026.