Howe
Howe names 10 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Howe how, Elias (1819-1867)
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
how, Elias (1819-1867), the inventor of the American sewing machine . He was born at Spencer, Massachusetts, and died in Brooklyn, New York . His father was a farmer and a miller. Young Elias worked for his father on the farm and in the mill, and attended district school in the winter time. He learned the trade of a machinist. He patented his sewing machine in 1846. He visited England and took out a patent there. he was for a number of years poor, even destitute, and embarrassed by numerous lawsuits. About 1854 his rights under the patent were accepted by various manufacturers, who paid him a royalty, and he became a wealthy man. Nevertheless, he served as a private soldier during the Civil War, and, at a time when it was not known whether the general government was able to pay its debts, he invested his available money in United States bonds. By all accounts, he was a worthy, industrious, patriotic, inventive man. Howe was by no means the first to work at the general problem of a sewing machine, nor, indeed, was he the first to invent a possible contrivance. His inspiration came in the form of the thought to place the eye of the needle in the point, to thrust the thread through the fabric instead of drawing it after. With this idea in mind the rest was easy. See Sewing Machine
Howe SAMUEL GRIDLEY, an American philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL GRIDLEY, an American philanthropist; born in Boston, zine," but made himself known chiefly 10 1801. He was graduated at Nov. , Brown University in 1821, and at the He Harvard Medical School in 1824. served as a surgeon during the Greek War of Independence from 1824 to 1827, organizing the medical staff of the Greek army. In 1831 he went to Paris to study the methods of educating the blind, and, having become mixed up in the Polish insurrection, insurrection, spent six weeks in a Prussian prison. On his return to Boston he established a school for the blind, his most famous pupil being Laura a school Bridgman. He also established for the training of idiots. In 1851-1853, assisted by his wife, he edited the antislavery "Commonwealth," and "The Cretan," for the Greek cause. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 9, 1876.
Howe MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE, an American editor; born in Bristol, R. I., in 1864. He graduated from Lehigh University in 1886. He took post-graduate courses at Harvard, and in 1888 became associate editor of "Youth's Companion," where he remained until 1893. For two years following he was assistant editor of the "Atlantic Monthly," and he later again joined the staff of the "Youth's Companion" and remained there until 1913. From 1917 he was editor of the Harvard graduates' magazine. He wrote much on biological and musical subjects. His books include "Boston, the Place and the People" (1903); "Life and Letters of George Bancroft" (1908); "Life and Labors of Bishop Hare" (1911); "The Boston Symphony Orchestra" (1914). of He edited "Home Letters General Sherman" (1909). He was a member of the Harvard Volunteers in Europe in 1916.
Howe FREDERIC CLEMSON, an in Meadville
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERIC CLEMSON, an in Meadville, Pa ., in 1857. He graduated from Allegheny College in 1889, and took post-graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University. He afterward studied in Germany and studied law at ELIAS HOWE New York Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and practiced in Cleveland, O., until 1909. From 1911 to 1914 he was director of the People's Institute of New York City, and from 1914 to 1919 was Commissioner of Immigration at the port of New York. While holding this position he was severely criticized for his leniency in relation to the deportation of anarchists and other undesirable aliens. He was the author of "Socialized Germany" (1915); "Why War" (1916). He also contributed much to magazines on economic subjects.
Howe JULIA WARD, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JULIA WARD, an American author; born in New York City, May 27, 1819. A philanthropist, interested especially in woman's suffrage; she was the wife of Dr. Samuel G. Howe, the philanthropist, and with him edited the antislavery journal, the Boston "Commonwealth." She is best known as the author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), written during a visit JULIA WARD HOWE to the camps near Washington. Among her works, besides several volumes of verse, are: "The World's Own" (1857), a drama; "Life of Margaret Fuller" (1883); "Trip to Cuba" (1860); "Is Polite Society Polite? and Other Essays"; etc. She also wrote: "Later Lyrics"; "Sex and Education," etc. She died Oct. 17, 1910.
Howe EDGAR WATSON, an Ameri- Ind
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDGAR WATSON, an Ameri- Ind., in 1854. He was educated in the common schools of Missouri, and at the age of twelve entered a printing office. He was publisher and owner of several papers and at last became proprietor of the "Atchison Daily Globe," which he made one of the most widely quoted papers in the United States. He. continued in this capacity until 1911, when he became editor and publisher of "E. W. Howe's Monthly." He was the author of "The Story of a Country Town"; John Whitlock"; "Daily Notes of a Trip "A Moonlight Boy"; "The Confession of Around the World"; " Country Town Sayings "; and "The Blessing of Business." tor;
Howe SIR WILLIAM, an English general
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM, an English general; born Aug. 10, 1729. He was a and brother of Admiral Richard Howe successor of General Gage in the command of the British forces in America. His first exploit was the battle of Bunker Hill (1775), in which he lost one-third of his men present in the action. In August, 1776, he gained the battle of Long Island and took New York City. He obtained an advantage over the September Americans at Brandywine in , 1777, in consequence of which Philadelarmy. At his phia was occupied by his in 1778, and own request he was recalled Clinton. was succeeded by Sir Henry He died July 12, 1814.
Howe HENRY MARION, an American metallurgist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY MARION, an American metallurgist; born in Boston, in 1848. He graduated from Harvard in 1869 and studied afterward at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was professor of metallurgy in Columbia University, New York, from 1897 until he became professor emeritus. He was an officer and director in many metallurgical companies, and was a member of many scientific societies, both in the United States and in foreign countries. He received honorary degrees from Harvard, Lafayette, and other colleges. His published writings include: "Copper Smelting" (1885); "Iron, Steel, and Other Alloys" (1903); "Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron" (1916).
Howe ELIAS, an American invenor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIAS, an American invenor; born in Spencer, Mass., July 9, 1819. 1846, and was for several years involved He constructed a sewing machine in in expensive and harassing lawsuits to establish his right to reap the benefits of his own ingenuity . He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1867. American lawyer and public official; born
Howe JOHN IRELAND, an American inventor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN IRELAND, an American inventor; born in Ridgefield, Conn., July 20, 1793; was at first a physician, but in 1830 invented a pin-making machine. This he perfected later and revolutionized the pin manufacture with it. He died in Birmingham, Conn., Sept. 10, 1876.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the ten Howes gathered here, two have kept a genuine hold on public memory: Elias Howe, whose 1846 patent for a needle with the eye in its point still underlies the lockstitch of every sewing machine, and Julia Ward Howe, whose Battle Hymn of the Republic is sung more widely now than any of the verse dramas and essays Collier's dutifully lists beside it; she is also remembered today for her 1870 appeal to women for peace, treated as an ancestor of Mother's Day. Samuel Gridley Howe's Boston school for the blind survives as the Perkins School for the Blind, though the language of Collier's 1921 note about his other foundation, a school for the training of idiots, marks how completely the vocabulary and the institutions of disability care have been rebuilt. The literary Howes have moved in opposite directions: Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, described here only as an editor of the Youth's Companion and the Harvard graduates' magazine, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1925, while Edgar Watson Howe, then a famous small-town editor, is now read almost solely for The Story of a Country Town as early American realism. Frederic Clemson Howe, whom Collier's scolds for leniency toward anarchists at the port of New York, reads very differently after the Palmer raids and the deportations of 1919-20, and Sir William Howe remains the standing puzzle of the Revolutionary War: a general whose caution at Bunker Hill and after is still argued over by historians.
Written for this edition, 2026.