Jefferson
Jefferson names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jefferson THOMAS, an American resident of the Unit statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS, an American resident of the Unit statesman, 3d President of the United 8 JEFFERSON THOMAS JEFFERSON Shadwell, Va., April 2, States; born in Shadwell, Va., April 2, ed a liberal education 1743. He received a liberal education duating at William and for that time, graduating at William and 764. He was admitted Mary College in 1764. He was admitted In 1769 he was sent to the bar in 1767. In 1769 he was sent House of Burgesses, to the Virginia House of Burgesses, ame by a speech where he gained local fame by a speech tion of slaves. supporting the emancipation of slaves. the re dissolved by In 1774 Burgesses were dissolved by vernor, but met on Lord Dunmore, the governor, but met on and sent deletheir own responsibility, and sent dele- Congress. Jeffergates to the Colonial Congress. Jefferable to go, sent a son being elected but unable to go, sent a Rights of British "Summary View of the Rights of British hich he was near- North America," for which he was nearin Parliament. ly attainted of treason in Parliament. Jefferson was a member of the 2d Congress, in 1775, and of the 3d, in 1776. He was appointed chairman of a special committee of five , to prepare a declaration of independence . Jefferson wrote the draft, and it was adopted by the committee, with very few changes, to become one of the immortal documents of his tory. He resigned his seat in Congress to assist in framing the Virginia consti tution. In 1779 he was elected governor of Virginia. In 1783 he was returned to Congress, where he secured the adoption of the decimal system of coinage , and assisted in other important measures. In 1784, with Franklin and Adams, he was instrumental in making important treaties with Prussia and Morocco. In 1785 he was made minister to France, where he served during the stormiest period of the French Revolution. The liberal and destructive spirit of that revolution had great influence upon him, and his subsequent views and acts were more or less shaped by it. He floated the French tricolor at his home at Monticello, and greeted his neighbors with the title "citizen." In 1789 he was made Secretary of State by Washington. Here he was recognized as the leader of the Republican party, the other members of the Cabinet and Wa ashington n himself being Federalists. In 1794 he retired to his estate, and passed three years in study and leisure . In 1797 he was chosen Vice-President with Adams, and in 1801 was elected President by the House of Representatives . In 1805 he re-elected. His administrations was were marked by the war with Tripoli, the admission of Ohio to the Union, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, the naval episode between the "Chesapeake " and the "Leopard," the Embargo act , the trial of Aaron Burr for treason, and the prohibition of the slave trade. In 1809 he retired finally to private life, where he devoted himself to study and to philanthropic enterprises , his chief undertaking being the establishment of the University of Virginia. He was steadily democratic in his views, and a champion of the rights of the States, as against centralization in government . He died in Monticello, Va., July 4, 1826, on the same day of John Adams's death, and the 50th anniversary of the famous Declaration that he had penned.
Jefferson JOSEPH, an American 9 comedian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH, an American 9 comedian; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20, 1829. He came of a theatrical stock, his great-grandfather having been hiladelphia e of ther havin compan a member of Garrick's company at ather and g Drury Lane, while his father and grand- American father were well known American actappeared Jefferson first appeared on the ors. thres, as the ch stage at the age of three, as the child in "Pizarro," and a year later gave an imitation of "Jim Crow" Rice. he went through For many years he went through the strolling actor, hard training of a strolling actor, and where in then played in New York, where in 1857 tor Pangloss, he made a hit as Doctor Pangloss, and of Asa T in 1858 created the part of Asa Tren- Cousin," So chard in "Our American Cousin," Southundreary. In ern playing Lord Dundreary. In 1865 and at the Ade he visited London, and at the Adelphi for the first time Theater played for the first time his of Rip Van Win world-famous part of Rip Van Winkle, With this character Sept. 4, 1865. With this character his ed, though he show name is identified, though he showed artist as Bob Ac himself as a supreme artist as Bob Acres and in other fine in "The Rivals" and in other fine old He died April English comedies. He died April 23, 1905. THOMAS, an Americ
Jefferson CHARLES EDWARD, ssouri
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES EDWARD, ssouri. an American clergyman and writer, born in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1860. He was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan Unian and wr versity in 1882 and after teaching school in 1860 for several years he entered the Congreshio Wesle gational ministry in 1887 and for ten ter teachin years following was pastor of the Cen- Entered the tral Church, Chelsea, Mass. In 1898 he 1887 and was chosen pastor of the Broadway pastor of Tabernacle in New York City. He wrote Mass. much on religious and social subjects. His writings include "Doctrine and Deed" (1902); "The Minister as Prophet" (1905); "The Old Year and the New" (1907); "The Cause of the War" (1914); "A Fire in the Snow" (1916); "Forefathers' Day Sermons" (1917). luse Snow
Jefferson a river in Montana
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a river in Montana, about 200 miles long. It is formed by the union of the Beaver Head and Wisdom (or Big Hole) rivers in Madison It is It unites with the Madison and Galco. latin to form the Missouri. rivers in e Madison
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could praise Jefferson's 1769 speech "supporting the emancipation of slaves" and leave the matter there; today no account of him omits that he owned roughly 600 enslaved people over his lifetime and freed only a handful. In 1998 DNA testing linked a Jefferson male line to a descendant of Sally Hemings's son Eston, and in 2000 the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which runs Monticello, concluded that Jefferson most likely fathered her children; Monticello now interprets the plantation's slave quarters along Mulberry Row as central to the site. The commemorations Collier's had not yet seen followed quickly: his face on the nickel in 1938, on Mount Rushmore by 1941, and the Jefferson Memorial dedicated in 1943 on the bicentennial of his birth. Of the other Jeffersons here, Joseph's Rip Van Winkle, once world-famous, has faded almost entirely from the stage, while the Jefferson River still runs its 80-odd miles to help form the Missouri.
Written for this edition, 2026.