Herrick
Herrick names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Herrick MYRON T., an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MYRON T., an American public official, born at Huntington, O., in 1855. He studied at Oberlin College and the Ohio Wesleyan University. After studying law he was admitted to the bar and practiced at Cleveland from 1878 to 1886. He took an active interest in politics and was a member of State and National committees. In 1903 he was elected Governor of Ohio. MYRON T. HERRICK From 1912 to 1914 he was ambassador to France. He rendered valuable service at the outbreak of the war and after his retirement as ambassador was engaged in war work_in the United States and Europe. He had many financial interests. an English
Herrick ROBERT, lyric poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, lyric poet; born in London, England, Aug. 20, 1591; studied at Cambridge University; studied law at Trinity Hall; accepted the living of Dean Prior, Devonshire, in 1629, but was rejected in 1647 for adherence to the Royalist side, being restored, however, in 1662. He wrote "Hesperides" (1648). A number of his shorter songs, e. g., "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"; "Cherry Ripe," etc., have been set to music. He died in Dean Prior, Devonshire, England, in October, 1674.
Herrick ROBERT, an American novelist and poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an American novelist and poet, born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1868; was graduated at Harvard in 1890; and in 1895 became Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Chicago. Among his first "The Web of Life"; "The books are: Man Who Wins"; "Love's Dilemmas"; etc. His later works include "Together" (1908); "The Healer" (1911); "Clark's Field" (1914); "The Conscript Mother" (1916).
Herrick MRS. SOPHIE MCIL- VAINE (BLEDSOE)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. SOPHIE MCIL- VAINE (BLEDSOE), an American editor and microscopist, daughter of Albert T. Bledsoe; born in Gambier, O., March 26, 1837. She became editor of the "Southern Review" in 1875, and afterward joined the editorial staff of "Scribner's Monthly." She wrote "Wonders of Plant Life under the Microscope" (1833); "The Earth in Past Ages"; etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Three of these four lives were still unfinished when Collier's wrote in 1921. Myron T. Herrick, described as "retired as ambassador," was sent back to Paris that very year and served until his death there in March 1929, by which time he was famous chiefly for greeting Charles Lindbergh after the 1927 flight to Le Bourget; the novelist Robert Herrick published Waste (1924), became government secretary of the Virgin Islands in 1935 and died there in 1938, his once-admired novels now little read; and Sophie Bledsoe Herrick had in fact died in 1919, before the entry appeared (her microscopy book is 1883, not the "1833" printed here). Only the poet's account still stands as written, though his 1648 Hesperides is now served by full scholarly editions rather than the anthology favourites "Gather ye rosebuds" and "Cherry Ripe," and he is read as a far more complex and bawdy poet than the songbook selections suggest.
Written for this edition, 2026.