Huntington
Huntington names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Huntington ELLSWORTH, an American scientist and explorer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELLSWORTH, an American scientist and explorer; born in Galesburg, Ill., in 1876. He graduated from Beloit College in 1897 and afterward took post-graduate courses at Harvard. He carried on explorations in Turkey and Mesopotamia from 1897 to 1901. In 1903 and 1904 he was research assistant for the Car Carnegie Institute in Russian Turkestan. This was followed by explorations in Chinese Turkestan, India, China, and Siberia. He was instructor of geography at Yale from 1907 to 1910, assistant professor from 1910 to 1915, and research associate from 1917. He was a member of many geographical and scientific societies. He was the author of "Explorations in Turkestan" (1905); "The Pulse of Asia" (1907); "Palestine and Its Transformation" (1911); "Civilization and Climate" (1915); "Red Man's Continent" (1919).
Huntington COLLIS POTTER, one of the earliest American railroad builders
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
COLLIS POTTER, one of the earliest American railroad builders; born in Connecticut in 1821. He started at the age of 15 as a peddler of clocks in the South and West. In 1848 he joined the rush to California and eleven years later he was one of the leading promoters of the Central Pacific railway. In 1881 Huntington, with Leland Stanford, built the Southern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads. His enormous fortune, accumulated in these successful ventures, was partly used to further Indian and negro education. At his death in 1900 he bequeathed his valuable collection of paintings to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Huntington a city in Cabell co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city in Cabell co., W. Va.; on the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers, and on the Chesapeake e and Ohio. and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 52 miles W. of Charleston. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and extensive manufactures of railway cars, brick, machinery, ice, etc., and the shops of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. It is the seat of Marshall College, the State Normal School, and the Douglas Colored High School, and has electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. It was named after the late Collis P. Huntington. Pop. (1910) 31,161; (1920) 50,177.
Huntington DANIEL, an American painter
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL, an American painter; born in New York City, Oct. 14, 1816. He studied at Hamilton College. After a visit to Europe in 1839 he returned to New York and devoted himself to portraits, but he executed a great number of genre and historical pieces. In 1862-1869 he was president of the National Academy, and again in 1877-1891. Among his later works are "Philosophy and Christian Art" (1878), and "Goldsmith's Daughter" (1884). Gal "Mercy's Dream," in the Corcoran lery, Washington, is one of his most notable works. He painted portraits of Presidents Lincoln and Grant, and Senator John Sherman. He died April 18, 1906.
Huntington FREDERIC DAN, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERIC DAN, an American clergyman; born in Hadley, Mass., May 28, 1819. In early life as a Unitarian minister he held a pastorate in Boston from 1842 to 1855, when he became Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard University. In 1860 he withdrew from the Unitarian denomination, was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in 1869 was consecrated Bishop of Central New York. His writings include: "Christian Believing and Living" (1860); "Steps to a Living Faith" (1873); "Personal Christian Life in the Ministry" (1887); "Forty Days with the Master" (1891). He died at Hadley, Mass., July 11, 1904.
Huntington a city and countyseat of Huntington co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Huntington co., Ind.; on both sides of the Little river, and on the Wabash, the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago, and the Erie railroads; 48 miles E. of Logansport. It is in the center of a large coal mining and lime burning region, and has abundant water power, used in railroad repair shops, lime and cement works, bicycle, shoe, plow, and barrel factories. It has eleclights, public library, public high schools, daily and weekly newspapers, National bank. Pop. (1910) and a 10,272; (1920) 14,000.
Huntington ARCHER MILTON, an American writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARCHER MILTON, an American writer, born in New York City in 1870. He was educated privately in New York and Spain. He was a son of Collis P. Huntington, and devoted a part of his great wealth to the foundation of the Hispanic Society of America to which he gave a magnificent building. He was a member of many foreign and American societies. He edited "The Poem of the Cid" (3 vols., 1897) and various other works. He contributed to magazines on Spanish- American subjects.
Huntington WILLIAM ED- WARDS, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM ED- WARDS, an American educator, born in Hillsboro, Ill., in 1844. He served throughout the Civil War and in 1870 graduated the University of Wisconsin. He took post-graduate courses at other colleges. In 1868 he was ordained as a Methodist minister. After serving as pastor in several churches in Massachusetts he was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University. From 1904 to 1911 he was president of that institution, and from 1911 to 1917 was dean of the Graduate Department.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the eight, the two cities have gone opposite ways: Huntington, West Virginia, still growing when Collier's counted 50,177 in 1920, peaked around 1950 and has since shrunk to roughly 46,000, though its Marshall College became Marshall University in 1961 and is now the city's best-known institution; Huntington, Indiana, has grown modestly and is chiefly remembered as the hometown of Dan Quayle, vice president from 1989 to 1993. Ellsworth Huntington, whom Collier's presents in 1921 as a rising Yale geographer, is now read mainly as a cautionary figure: the climatic determinism of Civilization and Climate is rejected, and his later leadership in the American eugenics movement has fixed his reputation. Collis P. Huntington remains famous as one of the Central Pacific's Big Four, and Archer Milton Huntington's Hispanic Society, founded with his father's railroad money, still stands in upper Manhattan with its Velazquez and Goya. The painter Daniel Huntington, twice president of the National Academy, and Bishop Frederic Dan Huntington have faded almost entirely from general memory, as has William Edwards Huntington, who went on to head Boston University.
Written for this edition, 2026.