Cobb
Cobb names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Cobb IRVIN S ( HREWSBURY)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
IRVIN S ( HREWSBURY), in 1876. He was educated in the public schools and privately, and while he was still a boy began contributing humorous matter to periodicals . For a time he served on the editorial staff of several papers in Kentucky. In 1904 he became special writer and editor of the humorous section of the New York "Evening Sun." For several years following he served as a correspondent of other New York papers. In 1911 he became staff contributor to the "Saturday Evening Post," and in 1914-1915 , and again in 1917-1918 he represented that publication as war correspondent in Europe. He was a prolific writer and was also wellplays. known as a lecturer. He wrote also, in collaboration with others, several pla His books include: "Back Home" ( 1912); "Europe Revised" (1914); "Paths of Glory" (1915); " Old Judge Priest" (1915); "Those Times and These" (1917); "The Life of the Party" (1919); "The Abandoned Farmers " (1920).
Cobb HOWELL, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HOWELL, an American statesman; born in Cherry Hill, Ga., Sept. 7 , 1815. He was graduated at Franklin College in 1834, became a lawyer in 1836, and in 1843 was elected to Congress as a Democrat. He served eight years and was Speaker of the House one term. Elected governor of Georgia in 1851, he returned to Congress in 1855, and was made Secretary of the Treasury by President Buchanan in 1857, resigning in 1860 to urge secession. He held a Confederate military commission in the Civil War, but saw little service. He died in New York City, Oct. 9, 1868 . Paducah, Ky., an American writer, born at Pad
Cobb SYLVANUS, an American novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SYLVANUS, an American novelist; born in Waterville, Me., 1823; was editor and publisher of a periodical called the "Rechabite," but best known as a prolific story-writer. His most popular novels are: "The King's Talisman" (1851); "The Patriot Cruiser " (1859); and "Ben Hamed" (1864 ). He died in Hyde Park, Mass., July 2, 1887.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the three men, only Irvin S. Cobb was still living when Collier's went to press in 1921, described as "a prolific writer" and popular lecturer. He went on to Hollywood, acting in films including John Ford's Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) and hosting the 1935 Academy Awards ceremony, published the memoir Exit Laughing in 1941, and died in 1944; once among the best-paid writers in America, he is now little read, and the black characters in his Judge Priest stories are generally read today as dialect caricature. The two dead men need no updating, though modern accounts of Howell Cobb stress what Collier's passes over: he presided over the Montgomery convention that organized the Confederacy in February 1861. Collier's entry on "Sylvanus" the novelist in fact describes Sylvanus Cobb Jr., the story-paper writer, whose father of the same name was a Universalist editor.
Written for this edition, 2026.