Elliott
Elliott names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Elliott HOWARD, an American outside causes
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HOWARD, an American outside causes, with over $3,000,000 hav- railway president, born in New York in He was educated at Cambridge High School and the Lawrence Scientific School. After serving in various capacities for several railroads in the West, he became general manager of the Chicago, Burlington and Kansas City, and other roads in 1896, serving until 1902. He was in succession 2d 2d vice-president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; president of the Northern Pacific; and president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads. He served in the latter capacity until 1917, when he resigned to become chairman of the board of directors of the New Haven system. He was president of the Northern Pacific railway until 1920, and was chairman of the board of directors of that railroad from that date. He was a member of many engineering societies. During the World War he acted as a member of the special committee on national defense of the American Railway Association.
Elliott MAUD HOWE, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MAUD HOWE, an American writer, the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, born in Boston in 1854. She was privately educated in America and Europe. In 1887 she married John Elliott. She wrote many books, including: "Roma Beata" (1904); ; "Two "Two in Italy" (1905); "Sun and Shadow in Spain" (1908); "Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe" (1915). In 1917 she was awarded the Joseph Pulitzer prize for the best American biography teaching patriotism. During the World War she was a member of the executive committee of the N. E. Italian War Relief Fund, and was also a member of the Rhode Island Food Conservation Commission.
Elliott MAXINE, an American actress
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MAXINE, an American actress. Her real name was Jessie Dermot. She was born in Rockland, Me., in 1873. She made her first appearance on the stage with E. S. Willard in 1890, and afterward played as leading woman in Shakespearean and other plays. In 1898 she married Nathaniel C. Goodwin, but later secured a divorce from him. From 1908 she was owner and manager of the Maxine Elliott Theater in New York City. She appeared as star in many successful plays, including "When We Were Twenty-One," "Her Own Way," "Under the Greenwood Tree," "The Chaperon," and "Deborah of Tods."
Elliott JOHN, an American artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American artist, born in England in 1858. He was privately educated and studied art in Paris. His art work was chiefly portraits and mural decorations. Among the latter were ceiling decorations in the Boston Public Library, and a mural painting in the National Museum of Washington. In 1908 he served with the American Red Cross in the relief of the sufferers of the Messina earthquake, and was architect of the American village constructed for the sufferers of that catastrophe. He received decorations from the Italian and Spanish Governments.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All four Elliotts were alive when Collier's compiled these sketches in 1921, and the entries stop mid-career. John Elliott died in 1925 and Howard Elliott in 1928; Maxine Elliott, the former Jessie Dermot, died in France in 1940, and Maud Howe Elliott lived until 1948, dying at 93 — her Pulitzer for the "Life and Letters of Julia Ward Howe," shared with her sisters Laura E. Richards and Florence Howe Hall, was the first biography prize the Pulitzers ever gave. The railroads that made Howard Elliott's name are gone as separate companies: the New York, New Haven and Hartford was absorbed into Penn Central in 1969, and the Northern Pacific merged into Burlington Northern in 1970. The Maxine Elliott Theater, which Collier's notes she owned and managed from 1908 — an unusual thing for a woman then — later served as a CBS television studio and was demolished in 1960.
Written for this edition, 2026.