Dawson
Dawson names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dawson CONINGSBY IAM)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CONINGSBY IAM), an American author, born at High Wycombe, England, in 1883, the son of William James Dawson. He gradu- , Cambridge, ated from Merton College in 1905, and in the same year came to America, where he traveled as special correspondent for several English newspapers. He was literary adviser to publishers from 1910 to 1913. In 1916 he joined the Canadian 1st Division at the front as lieutenant of the Field Artillery and served until the end of the war. In 1917 he was wounded. After serving with the British Ministry of Information he rejoined the Canadian forces in the spring of 1918. He was again wounded in September of that year. He delivered lectures in the United States under the auspices of the British Mission in November and December, 1918, and in 1919- 1920 he lectured throughout the United States on the results of the war. He was the author of "The Worker and Other Poems" (1906); "The Garden without Walls" (1913); "The Raft" (1914); "Carry On" (1917); "The Glory of the Trenches" (1918); and "The Test of Scarlet" (1919). He also wrote several volumes of poems. DAWSON (FRANCIS) WARRING- TON, an American writer and lecturer, born in Charleston, S. C., in 1878. He was educated in France and in the Charleston College. He engaged in newspaper work and acted as special correspondent in Spain, Russia, and other countries of Europe. He was American war correspondent with the French Armies from 1914 to 1916. In 1917 he was appointed attaché of the American Embassy at Paris and served as special assistant in that post until 1919. He was well known as a lecturer in the United States and in Europe. He was a member of the first neutral commission sent by the French Ministry of asphyxiat- War to investigate the use of ing gases by the German army on the in April, 1915. He Anglo-French front " (1906); was the author of "The Scar "The Scourge" (1908); and "The True Dimension" (1916).
Dawson WILLIAM JAMES, a clergyman and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM JAMES, a clergyman and writer, born at Towcester, England, in 1854. He was educated at Didsbury College, Manchester. In 1875 he was ordained Wesleyan minister. He served in several pastorates in England until 1905, when he moved to the United States, becoming pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church. He lectured widely on literary and historical subjects. He wrote "Makers of English Poetry" (1890); "Makers of English Prose" (1899); "Quest of the Simple Life" (1903); "A Soldier of the Future" of Courage" (1911); (1908); "The Book "The Father of a Soldier" (1917); and "Chalmers Comes Back" (1919). He poems. also wrote several volumes of
Dawson capital of Yukon territory
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
capital of Yukon territory, Canada; in the gold region of the Klondike. It is on the E. side of the Yukon river, 575 miles from Juneau. It was founded by Joseph Ladue, a miner, who 1896. built the first house here, Sept. 1, Dawson is the center of the Klondike gold region, and has grown from a mining camp into a prosperous town, with important commercial interests. It is a port of call for steamships from June to October. Pop. (1911) 3,015. (WILL-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the three Dawsons Collier's set out in 1921, the town has changed most: it lost the status the entry gives it, for Yukon's capital moved from Dawson to Whitehorse in 1953, and the population of 3,015 recorded in 1911 has fallen to roughly 1,400 today. The gold camp founded by Joseph Ladue in 1896 now lives largely on tourism and heritage, its riverfront buildings preserved as a national historic site, and in 2023 the surrounding Tr'ondëk-Klondike landscape was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The two writers have faded: Coningsby Dawson, still a bestselling war memoirist when this was written, died in 1959 and is now read mainly by historians of First World War propaganda, while his father William James Dawson died in 1928.
Written for this edition, 2026.