Dallas
Dallas names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dallas a city and county-seat of Dallas co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Dallas co., Tex.; on the Trinity River, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fé, the Houston and Texas Central, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Texas and Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf, the St. Louis Southwestern, the St. Louis and San Francisco, and other railroads; 32 miles E. of Fort Worth. It is the metropolis of N. Texas, and although comparatively a young city, is well laid substantially built. Area, 19 square miles. Business Interests. Dallas is in the great grain belt of the State, and has large cotton, mining, manufacturing, and commerical interests. It is the leading manufacturing city of the State, and it is also the largest inland cotton market in the United States, handling over 1,500 bales of spot cotton yearly. The principal articles were cotton machinery, leather goods, shoes, dressed meat, cotton goods, foundry and machine-shop products, cement and clothing. There were in 1920 5 National banks, and several private banking houses. The assessed real and personal property valuation in 1919 was $103,587,650. Public Interests. In 1919 the city had 342 miles of streets, of which 152 miles were paved; 218 miles of water mains; and electric light and water plants, the latter owned by the city. Among the prominent buildings are the Catholic and Episcopal churches, the United States Court-house, the Texas State Fair and Dallas Exposition buildings, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (R. C.), Cathedral of St. Matthew (P. E.), Ursuline Convent, St. Mary's Orphanage, St. Paul's Sanitarium (all R. C.), and St. Mary's College (P. E.). Dallas is the seat of the Southern Methodist University, and has hospitals, and a park system of nearly 800 acres. There is a boulevard system of over 60 miles. There are over 25,000 pupils in the public schools, and the annual cost of ma maintaining the school system is about $850,000. Pop. (1910) 92,104; (1920) 158,976.
Dallas GEORGE MIFFLIN, an American diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE MIFFLIN, an American diplomatist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1792. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1810. In 1813 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after entered the diplomatic service. In 1831 he was elected a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was United States minister to Russia from 1837 to 1839, and in 1844 was elected Vice-President of the United States. In 1846 his casting-vote as President of the Senate repealed the protective tariff of 1842, though he had previously been concourse on sidered a Protectionist. His this question aroused much indignation States in Pennsylvania. He was United 1856 to minister to Great Britain from 1861. He died in Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1864.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921, Dallas was a 19-square-mile railroad and cotton town of 158,976 people, proud of its 152 miles of paved streets and its standing as "the largest inland cotton market in the United States." The East Texas oil strike of 1930 turned it into a financial and corporate capital instead; cotton receded, and banking, insurance, defense and later telecommunications took over. The city now holds roughly 1.3 million people, and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, knitted together by the vast DFW International Airport opened in 1974, is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country at over 8 million. The single event that most defines Dallas in modern memory came after this account: the assassination of President Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on 22 November 1963. The companion entry on George Mifflin Dallas, vice-president and the city's likely namesake, needs no revision.
Written for this edition, 2026.