Hunter
Hunter names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hunter DAVID, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DAVID, an American military officer; born in Washington, D. C., July 21, 1802; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1822; assigned to frontier duty; promoted captain in 1833; resigned from the army in Chicago; rein 1836 and settled entered the army in 1842 as paymaster with the rank of major. On May 17, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers and a few months later major-general. He was given command of the Department of the South in March, 1862, and recruited and organized in South Carolina the first negro regiment in the Union army. He was transferred to the Department of West Virginia in May, 1864; defeated the Confederates at Piedmont, June 5, 1864; was chairman of the commission which tried the conspirators against the life of President Lincoln; brevetted major-general, U. S. A., March 13, 1865, and was retired on account of age, July 31, 1866. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1886.
Hunter WILLIAM, a British anatomist and obstetrician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, a British anatomist and obstetrician, elder brother of cipal one being at Bath. She died June John Hunter; born in Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, May 23, 1718. Originally educated for the Church at Glasgow University, he studied medicine for one session (1740-1741) at Edinburgh, and went through a long training in anatomy at St. George's Hospital, London. In 1747 he was admitted a member of the Corporation of Surgeons, ultimately confining his practice to midwifery. In 1764 he was appointed physician-extraordinary to Queen Charlotte. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, he in 1768 became Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy. His museum was bequeathed to his brother-in-law, Dr. Baillie, and after him, with an endowment of $400,000, to Glasgow University. He wrote: "An Anatomical Description of the Human Gravid Uterus and Its Contents." He died in London, England, March 30, 1783.
Hunter JOHN, a British surgeon and physiologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, a British surgeon and physiologist; born in Long Calderwood, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Feb. 13, brother William, a prosperous surgeon in London. In 1756 he was appointed house-surgeon at St. George's Hospital. In 1760 he became staffsurgeon and went with the army to Portugal. In 1768 he was appointed surgeon to St. George's Hospital; in 1790 surgeongeneral to the army, and inspectorgeneral of hospitals. Hunter contributed greatly to the development of English surgery, as well as to the advance of anatomy and physiology. One of his chief works was "The Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds" (1794). His museum was purchased by the Government and presented to the Royal College of Surgeons. He died in London, England, Oct. 16, 1793.
Hunter FORT, a defensive work at the confluence of the Mohawk river and Schoharie creek
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FORT, a defensive work at the confluence of the Mohawk river and Schoharie creek, N. Y., where many severe conflicts took place during the Revolutionary and the French-Indian Wars.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's noted in 1921 that John Hunter's museum had been "purchased by the Government and presented to the Royal College of Surgeons" — but German bombing of the College in May 1941 destroyed a large part of that collection; what survived reopened as the free Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 2023, minus the skeleton of Charles Byrne, the "Irish Giant," withdrawn from display after long argument that Byrne had begged not to be dissected. William Hunter's bequest to Glasgow, likewise still going, is Scotland's oldest public museum, though modern scholarship has been blunter than Collier's about where the brothers' anatomical specimens came from: bodies bought from resurrection men. On David Hunter, the flat claim that he "recruited and organized in South Carolina the first negro regiment in the Union army" now carries an asterisk — he raised it in 1862 without authorization and had to disband most of it unpaid, and historians usually credit the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry and the Louisiana Native Guards alongside him. Fort Hunter itself is gone; the ground is now the Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site, better known for Erie Canal remains than for the Revolutionary fighting Collier's recalled.
Written for this edition, 2026.