Cumberland
Cumberland names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Cumberland WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS, DUKE OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM AUGUS- TUS, DUKE OF, third son of George ; born in 1721. At the II. of England wounded battle of Dettingen he was when fighting at the side of his father, at Fontenoy, and though unsuccessful where he had the command of the allied army, he rose in reputation by somewhat subduing the insurrection in brutally by the landing of Scotland caused in 1745. In 1747 Charles Edward Stuart Cumberland was defeated by Marshal the Saxe at Lafeld, and in 1757 he lost battle of Hastenbeck, against D'Estrées, and concluded the convention at Closterseven, by which 40,000 English soldiers were disarmed and disbanded, and Hanover placed at the mercy of the French. He then retired in disgrace from his public office, and took no active part in affairs. He died in 1765.
Cumberland a city and countyseat of Allegany co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Allegany co., Md.; on the Potomac river, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio, the Cumberland and Pennsylvania, the Western miles S. E. of Maryland railroads; 150 Pittsburgh. It is a great railroad point Cumberland and the trade center for the It is the and George's Creek coal district. second city in population and importance academy in the State, and has a Catholic extenand convent, a house of Capuchins, , tanneries, sive paper mills, glass works planing steel and iron mills, flour and . There mills, and railroad repair shops State and are 4 National and several savings banks, daily and weekly newssyspapers, numerous churches, a Holly private tem of waterworks, public and . (1910) schools, high school, etc. Pop 21,839; (1920) 29,837.
Cumberland RICHARD, an Engessayist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD, an Engessayist, and lish dramatist, novelist, ; born poet, grandson of Richard Bentley 1732. Of good at Cambridge, Feb. 19, prospects, he was family and the highest in public discredited and impoverished service, and made literature a profession. His comedies, "The West Indian," "The "The Jew," and Wheel of Fortune," are an epit- "The Fashionable Lover," ome of the culture of the time; as are his essays, collected under the title of ." He wrote "Anecdotes Theserver of Eminent Painters in Spain," "Memoirs" (1806). He died in Tunbridge Wells, May 7, 1811.
Cumberland a city of Rhode Isis on the land
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Rhode Isis on the land, in Providence co. It Blackstone river, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. In of the neighborhood are granite quarries include importance. Its manufactures silk, and worsted horseshoes, cotton, goods, and women's clothing. The town Cistercian Trappist contains the only monastery in New England: Pop. . (1910) 10,107; (1920) 10,077
Cumberland a river of the United and States which runs
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a river of the United and States which runs through Kentucky Tennessee into the Ohio, having a course of about 600 miles, navigable for steam- . boats to Nashville, nearly 200 miles
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Maryland city Collier's called in 1921 "the second city in population and importance in the State" has since gone the other way: its population peaked around 39,000 about 1940 and is now under 20,000, Baltimore & Ohio's repair shops and the coal traffic having faded, while the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal beside it carried its last boats in the 1920s and is now a National Historical Park. The Cumberland River, described as running 600 miles to the Ohio and navigable to Nashville, was reshaped by federal dam-building — Wolf Creek Dam impounded Lake Cumberland in 1952, and locks now carry barges far above Nashville. In Rhode Island, the "only Cistercian Trappist monastery in New England" burned in 1950 and the monks moved to Spencer, Massachusetts; the town itself has grown past 30,000. Of the two men, William Augustus is remembered under the name Collier's politely skirts — "Butcher" Cumberland, for the killings after Culloden in 1746 — while Richard Cumberland's comedies have left the stage, though "The Jew" is still cited for its sympathetic Jewish hero.
Written for this edition, 2026.