Kearney
Kearney names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Kearney DENIS, an American agi-Oakmo Dakmont
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DENIS, an American agi-Oakmo Dakmont, County C tator; born in Oakmont, County Cork, followed the sea Ireland, in 1847; followed the sea in ne foreman of a gan 1858-1872; became foreman of a gang of an Francisco in 1 stevedores in San Francisco in 1872, ing in the draying b soon after starting in the draying busian interest ness for himself; took an interest in to interfere politics. In 1877, owing to interference began to ex with his business, he began to excite Francisco agai the workingmen of San Francisco against etc., mass me capital, Chinese labor, etc., mass meetsuburb called ings being held in a suburb called the movement instiga "Sandlots." The movement instigated succeeded in packing by him finally succeeded in packing a ng a new c convention and organizing a new conerest for the Ste stitution in its own interest for the State ummer of 18 of California. In the summer of 1878 throughout t he visited and spoke throughout the private secretar East, attended by a private secretary, much impressio but failed to make much impression. 1907. He died April 24, 1907. of New Jersey,
Kearney a city and county-seat of Buffalo co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Buffalo co., Neb.; on a canal extending from the Platte river, which furnishes power for manufacturing, and on the Union Pacific and Burlington Route railroads; 198 miles S. W. of Omaha. It is the farming, stock-raising, and manufacturing trade center for the surrounding country; has a large cotton mill, elecor the cotton tric flour mill, and machine shops; and is State No the seat of the Western State Normal Industrial S School and the State Industrial School (1910) 0,002; (1 for Boys. Pop. (1910) 6,202; (1920) 7,702. ENIR, an American
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 recorded Kearney, Nebraska, as a town of 7,702 people with a cotton mill and "the Western State Normal School"; the city now has roughly 33,000 residents, and that normal school, after spells as a state teachers college and as Kearney State College, became the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1991. Interstate 80 replaced the railroads as the town's main artery, and Kearney's biggest seasonal draw is now the hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes that stage on the Platte each spring. On the other subject, Denis Kearney, the 1921 account says he stirred workingmen "against capital, Chinese labor, etc." and "failed to make much impression" in the East; historians now treat him as central to the agitation that produced California's 1879 constitution and helped drive the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which stood until 1943. His slogan "The Chinese must go" is quoted today as a landmark of American nativism rather than as labour politics.
Written for this edition, 2026.