Cambridge
Cambridge names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Cambridge a city, and one of the county-seats of Middlesex co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, and one of the county-seats of Middlesex co., Mass., on the Charles river and the Fitchburg railroad; opposite to and connected with Bos, ton by four bridges. It was founded in 1630-1631, under the name of "Newe- Towne," or "Newtown," and did not receive its present name until several years later. In 1636 the General Court appropriated $2,000 to locate a school in Old Cambridge, which later became Harvard College, College, now Harvard University. In 1631 Cambridge was 35 miles long and only 1 mile wide, including the townships now incorporated as Billerica, Bedford, Lexington, Arlington, Brighton, and Newton, all of these having been gradually separated from it. The city was formerly divided into villages called Old Cambridge, Cambridgeport, East Cambridge, and North Cambridge, names which are still used. It has grown into a populous manufacturing center, where glass, furniture, organs, steam-engines, etc., are made. Here also is located the massive stone court house of Middlesex co. The first printing office in the United States was located in Cambridge, and the "Bay Psalm-Book," published by Stephen Day and printed in 1640, was the first book from this press. For historical and literary associations, Cambridge is one of the most famous cities in the United States. The venerable Washington elm, under which Washington took command of the American Army, July 3, 1775, 200 and stands at the corner of Mason and Garden streets. "Craigie House," built by Col. John Vassall, in 1759, was Washington's headquarters in 1775-1776, and afterward became the home of the poet Henry W. Longfellow until his death. On Elm avenue is "Elmwood," the birthplace and home of James Russell Lowell, who lived here 1819-1891. A part of this place has been bought by public subscription, to be preserved as a public park. This city has been the home of such distinguished men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry Channing, and Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Col. Thomas on, Louis Agassiz, univ Wentworth Higginson, John Fiske, and Charles Eliot Norton. The fine city hall and land for a park was the gift of a former citizen, Frederick H. Rindge, who also presented the city with a public library, an institution dge Manual Training now called the Rindge School, and other benefactions which amounted to more than $1,000,000. The beautiful Mount Auburn Cemetery is partly in Cambridge and partly in Watertown. Pop. (1910) 104,839; (1920) 109,694. See HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Cambridge a borough and countyseat of Cambridgeshire
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough and countyseat of Cambridgeshire, England, and seat of one of the most noted of English universities; on the Cam river; 48 miles N. by E. of London. The greater part of this town is embosomed in the foliage of the gardens of its numerous colleges. The streets are mostly narrow and irregular, houses ancient, and the place is well lighted, paved, and sewered. Of the fine shipbuilding concom churches here, St. Mary's, St. Sepul- miles, chre's, and Trinity are deserving of special mention. Cambridge deriver siderable trade from th products of the surrounding country; but its chief prosperity is derived from its university. Pop. about 42,000. a county of
Cambridge a city of Ohio
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Ohio, the county-seat of Guernsey co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads. It is the center of an imporortant mining region and is the shipping point for coal and oil. It has tin-plate mills, an earthenware plant, glove factories, and other industries; the division shops of the Pennsylvania railroad; a public library, hospital, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 11,327; (1920) 13,104.
Cambridge a city of Maryland
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Maryland, the county-seat of Dorchester co. It is on the Choptank river, and on the Cambridge and Seaford railroad. The city is an important meat-packing center, and has manufactures of underwear and lumber. It is the center of an extensive agricultural district. Pop. (1910) 6,407; (1920) 7,467.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 entry on the Massachusetts city lists glass, furniture, organs and steam-engines and points readers to Harvard, but says nothing of MIT, which had just moved across the Charles to its new Cambridge campus in 1916; today the two universities and the biotech and software firms of Kendall Square are the city's economy, the old mills long gone, with a population around 118,000 rather than 109,694. The "venerable Washington elm" at Mason and Garden streets did not survive the decade — it came down in 1923, and only a marker in the roadway shows the spot. The English Cambridge has grown from the "about 42,000" quoted here to roughly 145,000, and the university that was then closed to full degrees for women (granted only in 1948) sits at the centre of the "Silicon Fen" technology cluster. The two smaller Cambridges have moved least: Cambridge, Ohio, has slipped back to about 10,000 as coal mining faded, while Cambridge, Maryland, still a Choptank river seat of Dorchester County, is near 13,000.
Written for this edition, 2026.