Griggs
Griggs names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Griggs JOHN WILLIAM, an American lawyer and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN WILLIAM, an American lawyer and public official, born in Newton, N. J., in 1849. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1868. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1871, and e engaged in practice at Paterson, N. J. He was a member of the State Assembly and Senate from 1875 to 1888. In 1896 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, but resigned in 1898 to become Attorney-General in the cabinet of President McKinley. He resigned his post in 1901 to become a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. In this capacity he served until 1908, when he again engaged in the practice of law. er), an Austrian poet and dramatist; born in Vienna, Jan. 15, 1791. "Blanche of Castile," a tragedy, written at 17, and "Spartacus," a tragedy, showed genius; but "The Ancestress," first called popular attention to him. "Sappho," a tragedy, made him eminent in scholarship also. "The Golden Fleece," "The Argonauts," and "Medea" constitute a trilogy. "The Career and End of King Ottokar," "A True Servant of His Master," and "Woe to Him Who Lies" demand mention; but his poem "Waves of Ocean: Thrills of Love" is the supreme manifestation of his art. "In Thy Camp Is Austria," a poem of the times, created sensation. Later works of note are a "The Jewess of Toledo," "Fraternal Strife in the House of Hapsburg," and "Libussa," plays published posthumously; and a story, "The Poor Minstrel." He died in Vienna, Jan. 21, 1872.
Griggs EDWARD HOWARD, an American lecturer and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD HOWARD, an American lecturer and author, born at Owatonna, Minn., in 1868. He graduated from Indiana University in 1889, and took special courses at the University of Berlin. For several years he was instructor, assistant professor, professor, and lecturer on ethics at Leland Stanford Jr. University. In 1899 he became public lecturer on economics and ethical subjects. His writings include "The New Humanism" (1900); "Self- Culture Through the Vocation" (1914); and "The Soul of Democracy" (1918). He was a member of many learned societies.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were still living when Collier's wrote in 1921, so the accounts simply stop in mid-career. John William Griggs, the former New Jersey governor and McKinley's Attorney-General, died in Paterson in 1927; Collier's omits his later business role as president of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America, whose assets were folded into the newly formed Radio Corporation of America in 1919. Edward Howard Griggs, the Chautauqua-circuit lecturer on ethics, went on writing and speaking until his death in 1951, though the popular lecture circuit that made his living had largely collapsed by then. The Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, on which the elder Griggs sat from 1901 to 1908, still exists and still hears state-to-state disputes. Note that the text as reprinted here has become garbled: a fragment of the entry on the Austrian dramatist Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872) has run into the Griggs article.
Written for this edition, 2026.