Coolidge
Coolidge names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Coolidge CALVIN, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CALVIN, an American public official, Republican candidate for vice-president in 1920. He was born in ., and graduated 1872 in Plymouth, Vt from Amherst College in 1895. In the fall of that year he began the study of law in the offices of Hammond and Field in Northampton, Mass., and two years later was admitted to the bar. Soon after he entered the practice of law he was elected a member of the Northampton City Council, and has held public office almost continuously since. In 1900 and 1901 he was City Solicitor of Northampton. From 1907-1908 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and later Mayor of In 1912-1916 he served Northampton. on. in the State Senate, being president of that body for two years. From 1916 to 1918 he held the post of Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, and in 1918 was elected Governor of the State. During 1919 a strike of the Boston police left that city for a few days at the mercy of the lawless elements. Governor Coolidge took vigorous measures to enlist a volunteer force and refused to make any terms with the strikers who were discharged and not re-employed. His action brought him nation-wide fame and was indorsed by a majority of the citizens of his State, who re-elected him Governor in 1919. He was nominated for vice-president on the first ballot by the Repub- CALVIN COOLIDGE lican National Convention meeting in Chicago in June, 1920, and was elected on Nov. 4, 1920.
Coolidge ARCHIBALD CARY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARCHIBALD CARY, an American educator, born in Boston in 1866. He graduated from Harvard University in 1887 and studied in Berlin and in Paris. He acted as private secretary to his uncle, T. J. Coolidge, for several years, and in 1893 was secretary of the American Legation at Vienna. He was appointed instructor of history in Harvard University in 1893, becoming assistant professor in 1899 and proi fessor in 1908. From 1911 he was director of the University Library. He was Harvard lecturer at the Sorbonne and other French universities in 1906 and 1907, and acted as delegate to the Pan - American Scientific Congress at Santiago, Chile, in 1908-1909. In 1913- 191 1914 he was Harvard exchange professor at the University of Berlin. During the World War he acted as special agent of the State Department in Sweden and northern Russia, and was chief of the mission in Vienna. In 1919 he was attached to the Peace Conference as adviser and was a member of several scientific societies. He wrote "The United States as a World Power" (1908); and "Origins of the Triple Alliance" (1917).
Coolidge T(HOMAS), JEFFER- SON
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
T(HOMAS), JEFFER- SON, an American diplomat, born in Boston in 1831. He graduated from Harvard University in 1850 and began business in the firm of Gardiner & Coolidge, East India merchants. He also took an active part in the development of railways in the West. He was president of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe, and other railroads. In 1892-1893 he was United States Minister to France, and in 1898-1899 he was a member of the Joint High Commission to adjust disputes between England and the United States. He gave the Jefferson Physical Research Laboratory to Harvard University.
Coolidge Susan, a pseudonym of Miss Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Susan, a pseudonym of Miss Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. See Woolsey ; Sarah Chauncey
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught Calvin Coolidge in 1921 as a newly elected vice-president, famous mainly for breaking the 1919 Boston police strike; on 2 August 1923 Warren Harding died at San Francisco and Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary, in the family parlour at Plymouth, Vermont. He won the 1924 election in his own right, declined to run in 1928, and died in January 1933, his reputation later tied to the prosperity of the twenties and to the Crash that followed his term. Of the others, the Harvard historian Archibald Cary Coolidge became the founding editor of the journal Foreign Affairs in 1922, holding the post until his death in 1928, so his best-known work came after this entry was set in type; his uncle Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, the railway man and minister to France, had in fact died in 1920, before the volume appeared. Aiton's one-line cross-reference for "Susan Coolidge" still serves: Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who died in 1905, is remembered for What Katy Did and its sequels, which remain in print.
Written for this edition, 2026.