Hull
Hull names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hull ISAAC, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ISAAC, an American naval officer; born in Derby, Conn., March 9, 1775. In July, 1812, he commanded the frigate "Constitution." While cruising in the Gulf of St. Lawrence he met the British frigate "Guerrière," which, after a bloody fight of half an hour, surrendered, Aug. Lug. 19, 1812. The "Guerrière" was so injured in the battle that she soon sank. The British ship lost 100 men; the "Constitution" had 14 men killed and wounded, and within an hour or so was ready for another fight. This was the first naval battle of the War of 1812, and Congress gave Captain Hull a gold medal for his services. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1843. HULSEAN LECTURES. The Rev. John Hulse; born in Middlewich, Cheshire, England, in 1708, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and died in 1790, bequeathing his property to Cambridge University for the founding of two divinity scholarships in St. John's College, the Hulsean Prize, the office of Christian Advocate (in 1860 changed into the Hulsean Professorship of Divinity), and that of Hulsean Lecturer or Christian Preacher. The lecturer, appointed annually, must deliver four lectures before the university. The subjects are "The Evidence for Revealed Religion; the Truth and Excellence of Christianity; Prophecies and Miracles; Direct or Collateral Proofs of the Christian Religion, especially the Collateral Arguments; the most difficult Texts or Obscure Parts of Holy Scripture." Among the lecturers have been Trench, Farrar, and Bishop Boyd Carpenter.
Hull the chief , Quebec
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the chief , Quebec, Canada, on the Ottawa river, optown of Ottawa co. posite OTTAWA (q. v.), with which which it is connected by has mills, and manufactures axes, a suspension bridge. It matches, and wooden wares. most entirely destroyed by fire in 1900. It was al- Pop. about 20,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Quebec town Collier's described in 1921 as having "about 20,000" people no longer exists as a separate municipality: Hull was merged into the new city of Gatineau on 1 January 2002, and survives only as a sector and borough name, with Gatineau as a whole now home to roughly 290,000 residents. The suspension bridge link to Ottawa has been superseded by several road crossings, and the sector's old sawmills and match works have given way largely to federal government offices and the Canadian Museum of History. The Isaac Hull entry still stands as written, though his ship has outlasted him spectacularly: the "Constitution" is preserved afloat in Boston as the oldest commissioned warship in the world still floating, and sailed again under her own canvas in 1997. Modern accounts also note that the Constitution–Guerriere duel of 19 August 1812 was a celebrated frigate victory rather than strictly the war's first naval action.
Written for this edition, 2026.