Hamlin
Hamlin names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hamlin CYRUS, an American missionary
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CYRUS, an American missionary; born in Waterford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1834 and at Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837; went to Turkey in the following year. From 1860 to 1876 fol he was president of Robert College, which he had founded after a long conflict with the Turkish Government. President Hamlin belonged to the group of American educators in the Levant whose influence did much in molding the character of modern Bulgarian leaders, and producing autonomy for Bulgaria. He returned to the United States and became a professor in the Theological Seminary in Bangor; was president of Middlebury College, Vt., in 1880-1885, when he removed to Lexington, Mass. Part of his works are in the Armenian language; those in English include "Among the Turks" (1877) and "My Life and Times" (1893). He died in 1900.
Hamlin ALFRED DWIGHT FOSTER, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED DWIGHT FOSTER, an American architect, born in Constantinople, Turkey, in 1855, son of Cyrus Hamlin, founder and president of Robert College. He graduated from Amherst College in 1875 and studied architecture in the United States and in Paris. In 1883 he was appointed special assistant of architecture in Columbia University, and became successively instructor, assistant professor of architecture, adjunct professor, and full professor in that institution. He was a member of several architectural societies. He was the author of "A History of Architecture" (1896); "History of Ornament, Ancient and Medieval" (1916); and was a frequent contributor to architectural periodicals, and to various dictionaries and encyclopedias.
Hamlin HANNIBAL, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HANNIBAL, an American statesman; born in Paris, Me., Aug. 27, 1809; was admitted to the bar in 1833; and began practice in Hampden; was elected to the United States Senate in 1848 to fill an unexpired term; re-elected in 1851 and again in 1857; resigned in 1861, after being elected Vice- President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln; was again a United States Senator in 1869-1881, and then accepted the post of minister to Spain, but in the following year resigned and returned to the United States. He died in Bangor, Me., July 4, 1891.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote all three of these entries in 1921, when Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin was still teaching; he died in 1926, and his son Talbot Hamlin carried the family's architectural scholarship further, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for his life of Benjamin Latrobe. Cyrus Hamlin's Robert College, described here as won "after a long conflict with the Turkish Government," survives in Istanbul but in altered form: in 1971 its higher-education faculties were handed to the Turkish state and became Boğaziçi University, one of the country's most selective, while the name Robert College now belongs to the preparatory school. Hannibal Hamlin's entry is oddly silent on the thing he is now chiefly remembered for — that he served as Lincoln's Vice-President from 1861 to 1865 and was dropped from the ticket in 1864 in favour of Andrew Johnson, making him a standing subject of speculation about how Reconstruction might otherwise have gone.
Written for this edition, 2026.