Collier
Collier names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Collier WILLIAM MILLER, an American educator and diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM MILLER, an American educator and diplomat; born in Lodi, N. Y., in 1867. He graduated from Hamilton College in 1889 and studied at the Columbia Law School in 1889-1890. He was admitted to the bar in 1892. After practicing for several years in New York City he was ap pointed a member of the State Civil Service Commission, serving as presi- Commissio dent of that body from 1901 to 1903. He was lecturer on the law of bankruptcy at the New York Law School from 1903 to 1905. In 1903 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as special assistant of the attorney-general of the United States. He was appointed solicitor-general of the United States in 1904. From 1905 to 1909 he was minister to Spain. In 1917 he was elected president of George Washington University. During the World War he was chairman of the Extension Committee of the Red Cross at Cayuga co., N. Y., and took part in the war-loan campaigns. He wrote several works on legal subjects, including "Collier on Civil Service Law" (1901); "The Trusts" (1900); and "The Law and the Higher Law" (1918).
Collier ROBERT JOSEPH, an American editor and publisher
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT JOSEPH, an American editor and publisher, son of Peter Fenelon Collier, born in New York He graduated Georgetown University in 1894 and took from post graduate studies at Oxford and Harvard Universities. On the death of his father he became head of the publishing firm of P. F. Collier & Son, and for a time was editor of "Collier's Weekly." He initiated the formation of the Lincoln Farm Association, which by popular subscripton raised funds for the purchase of the farm upon which Lincoln was born in Kentucky, and the erection of granite memorial which a inclosed the Log og Cabin on the farm, This memorial was formally accepted by the United States Government in 1916. Mr. Collier was a member of many societies and took a prominent part in relief work during the World War. He a wellwas known sportsman. He died suddenly, Nov. 9, 1918.
Collier PETER FENELON, an American publisher and philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PETER FENELON, an American publisher and philanthropist, born in County Carlow, Ireland, 1849. He removed with his parents to the nited States, settling in Cincinnati, and his formal education was completed in St. Mary Seminary in that city. He began his business career in New York City early in the seventies, selling books from door to door. He purchased in 1882, for a small sum, a complete set of the plates of an edition of Dickens' works. Purchasing a printing press, he began the publishing business which within a few years had become very successful. The firm of P. F. Collier & Son published and sold many millions of books, chiefly editions of standard authors, made in inexpensive form. He founded in 1888 "Collier's Weekly." Mr. Collier was well known as a sportsman and breeder of blooded horses. He died April 23, 1909.
Collier JOHN PAYNE, an English Shakespearean critic
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN PAYNE, an English Shakespearean critic; born in London in 1789. He became known as a critical essayist on old English dramatic literature, and was editor of the new edition of "Dodsley's Old Plays" in 1825. In 1831 his best work, the "History of English Dramatic Poetry," was published. In 1842-1844 he published an annotated edition of Shakespeare in 8 vols.; in 1844 "Shakespeare's Library"; and in 1862 an edition of Spenser. He died in 1883.
Collier JEREMY, an English clergyman and political writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JEREMY, an English clergyman and political writer; born in 1650. He was educated at Cambridge, and having taken orders became rector of Ampton in Suffolk in 1679. He is chiefly remembered now for his "Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage," a work which effected a reform in the sentiments and language of the theater. He died in 1726.
Collier WILLIAM, an American comedian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an American comedian, born in 1868. He appeared in many minor parts in various comedies until 1901, when he became a star in "On the Quiet." He afterward appeared as star in many comedies and became one of the best known and most popular of American comedians.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The most striking silence is in the entry on John Payne Collier, praised here in 1921 simply as a Shakespearean critic: by then it had been established for sixty years that Collier had forged manuscript annotations in his "Perkins Folio" and planted documents in genuine archives, and today he is remembered chiefly as one of the great literary forgers rather than as the author of the "History of English Dramatic Poetry." The publishing house praised in these pages did not last: "Collier's Weekly," founded by Peter Fenelon Collier in 1888, ceased publication in 1957, and the Collier's Encyclopedia in which these very entries appeared was itself discontinued after the 1990s. Of the living men described, William Miller Collier left the George Washington University presidency to serve as ambassador to Chile through the 1920s and died in 1956, while the comedian William Collier moved from the stage into Hollywood sound films and died in 1944. Robert Collier's Lincoln Farm Association project, "formally accepted by the United States Government in 1916," survives as the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park in Kentucky.
Written for this edition, 2026.