Fuller
Fuller names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Fuller MELVILLE WESTON, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MELVILLE WESTON, an American jurist; born in Augusta, Me., Feb. 11, 1833; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1853; admitted to the bar in 1855; settled in Chicago, Ill., in 1856; and practiced there till 1888. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1864, 1872, 1876, and 1880; and was appointed chief-justice of the United States Supreme Court April 30, 1888. In 1904-1905 Gr Great Britain appointed him a commissioner to arbitrate at the Hague Court the case of the French flag at Muscat. He died in 1910.
Fuller THOMAS, an English his torian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an English his torian; born in June, 1608. He was a presbyter of the Established Church and a prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral. He was a voluminous writer. His works include: "David's Heinous Sin" (1631), a poem; "History of the Holy War" (1639); "A Pisgah Sight of Palestine" (1650); "Church History of Britain" (1655). The one work for which he is now esteemed is "The Worthies of England" (folio, 1662). He died in London, England, Aug. 16, 1661.
Fuller HENRY BLAKE, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY BLAKE, an American author; born, of New England blood, in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 9, 1857. He was inmercantile career, but tended for a entered literature with "The Chevalier of Pensieri-Vari" (new ed. 1892), and "The Châtelaine of La Trinité" (1892). He next wrote "The Cliff Dwellers" (1893), and "With the Procession" (1895), "The Puppet-Booth" (1896), "From the Other Side" (1898), short stories; "The Last Refuge" (1900); "Waldo Trench and Others" (1908).
Fuller SARAH MARGARET
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SARAH MARGARET. See OSSOLI, MARCHIONESS D'.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Margaret. See Ossoli
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could still list Melville Weston Fuller simply as a Chicago lawyer who became chief justice in 1888; the Fuller Court is now remembered above all for Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which blessed "separate but equal" until Brown v. Board of Education overturned it in 1954. Henry Blake Fuller was alive when that entry was written and died in 1929; his list of titles now usually ends with "Bertram Cope's Year" (1919), long neglected and today read as one of the earliest American novels of homosexual life. The most visible change is a matter of filing: both Collier's and Aiton's send the reader looking for Sarah Margaret Fuller under her married title, Ossoli, whereas she is now universally indexed as Margaret Fuller and read as the author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (1845). Only Thomas Fuller stands as described — his "History of the Worthies of England" (1662) is still the book he is esteemed for, though modern scholars also value his "Church History" more highly than Collier's allowed.
Written for this edition, 2026.