Hunt
Hunt names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hunt GAILLARD, an American leans
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GAILLARD, an American leans, La., in 1862. He was educated at Haven and the Emerson Institute in the Hopkins Grammar School in New Washington. From 1900 to 1909 he served as chief of the Bureau of Citizenship at the Department of State, and from 1909 was chief of the Division of Manuscripts , Library of Congress. He was a member of many committees apship. He was a lecturer on nationality pointed to investigate matters of citizenin George Washington University and also lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. He was a member of many his torical societies. His published writings include a history of "The Seal of the United States" (1909); "The Department of State: Its History and Functions" (1914); "Life in America One Hundred Years Ago" (1914). He also wrote the lives of Calhoun and Madison, and other American statesmen. He edited "The Writings of James Madison" and "The Journals of the Continental Congress." He also edited James Madison's "Journal of Debates in the Constitutional Convention" (1917).
Hunt THOMAS STERRY, an American chemist and geologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS STERRY, an American chemist and geologist; born in Norwich, Conn., Sept. 5, 1826. He was for a period assistant to the elder Silliman at Yale College; 1847 to 1872 was chemist and minera mineralogist t mineralogist to the Canadian Professor of Chem- Geological Survey: istry at Laval University (1856-1862) ) and at McGill University (1862-1868 ; 1872-1878 Professor of Geology in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In organic chemistry his name is identified with a system essentially his own, and his researches into the composition of rocks were of great importance. In 1859 he invented the green ink with which greenbacks are printed. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 1867, and received a fellowship of the Royal Society (1859), and the degree of LL.D. from Cambridge (1881). He published several works on chemistry and mineralogy. He died in New York City, Feb. 12, 1892.
Hunt JAMES HENRY LEIGH, an English poet and essayist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES HENRY LEIGH, an English poet and essayist; born in Southgate, Middlesex, England, Oct. 19, 1784. He was the personal friend of Byron, Shelley, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Coleridge. In 1811 he was tried and acquitted for some remarks on the subject of flogging in the army, published in the "Examiner," a journal which he had founded. He was afterwards sentenced, with his brother, to a fine of $2,500 and two years' imprisonment for an alleged libel against the prince regent. Offers to remit these penalties on a promise to refrain from similar expressions for the future were firmly rejected. "The Story of Rimini" is his longest and perhaps his best known poem; and among his miscellaneous works may be mentioned his autobiography, and his essays, entitled "Men, Women, and Books"; "Imagination and "; etc. He Fancy"; "Wit and Humor died in Putney, England, Aug. 28, 1859.
Hunt WILLIAM HOLMAN, an English painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HOLMAN, an English painter; born in London, England, in 1827. He was trained in the Royal Academy school, and began to exhibit in 1846. He belongs to the socalled PRE-RAPHAELITE (q. v.) school of English artists. In 1853 his "Claudio and Isabella" first attracted public attention, followed next year by the "Light of the World." He then made a journey to the East, the fruits of which are observable in his succeeding pictures: "The Scapegoat" (1856); "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple" (1860); "Shadow of the Cross" (1873); "Plains of Esdraelon" (1877); "Triumph of the Innocents" (1885). Outside of Biblical subjects Mr. Hunt painted: "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"; "After-Glow"; "Festival of St. Swithin"; etc. He died Sept. 7, 1910.
Hunt RICHARD MORRIS, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD MORRIS, an American architect; born in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 31, 1828; finished the study of his profession in Paris; and was employed on the extension of the National Capitol. Among the structures designed by him are the Presbyterian Hospital, Lenox Library, the William K. Vanderbilt mansion, the "Tribune" Building, etc., in New York City; the Yorktown Monument, Va.; the pedestal of the "Statue of Liberty," on Bedloe's Island, New York harbor; etc. He died in Newport, R. I., July 31, 1895.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Four of the five men were already dead when Collier's compiled this in 1921; the fifth, Gaillard Hunt, was still serving at the State Department and died in 1924, so his entry is the only one that needed finishing. The heaviest losses fall on Richard Morris Hunt's New York work: the Lenox Library was pulled down in 1912 to make way for the Frick house, the William K. Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue followed in 1926, and the Tribune Building went in 1966 for the Pace University campus leaving his Biltmore House and his 1902 Fifth Avenue front for the Metropolitan Museum, unmentioned here, as his best-known survivals. The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty still stands, though Bedloe's Island was officially renamed Liberty Island in 1956. Holman Hunt's reputation has swung furthest: the Pre-Raphaelites, condescended to for much of the twentieth century, are now among the biggest draws in British galleries, and "The Light of the World" and "The Scapegoat" hang as major attractions rather than curiosities.
Written for this edition, 2026.