King
King names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
King WILLIAM HENRY, United States Senator from Utah
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HENRY, United States Senator from Utah; born in Fill- Utah; born in Fillmore City, Utah, in 1864. He was edu- 1864. He was educated at the Brigham Young Academy Im Young Academy and at the University of Utah. After ty of Utah. After studying law at the University of Michi- University of Michigan he began the practice in Utah. For actice in Utah. For member of the terthree years he was a member of the territorial legislature and served as county Ind served as county attorney and city attorney. He was aptorney. He was appointed assistant judge of the Supreme dge of the Supreme Court of Utah in 1904 and served in 1904 and served in Congress from 1897 to 1899. He was to 1899. He was gress in 1000, beгy again elected to Congress in 1900, serving until 1901. He was defeated for the was defeated for the United States Senate in 1905, and in te in 1905, and in 1917 defeated George Sutherland for the e Sutherland for the term 1917 to 1923. He took a prom- He took a promenate debates on the inent part in the Senate debates on the th Germany, in 1919 Treaty of Peace with Germany, in 1919 and 1920.
King CLARENCE, American an geologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CLARENCE, American an geologist; born in Newport, R. I., Jan. 6, 1842. In 1863 he joined the State geological survey of California, making the first detailed surveys of the Yosemite Valley. In 1867 he was in charge of the n United States geological survey of the sur 40th parallel, and for the next five years next five did work from the California Sierras to ornia Sierr Eastern Wyoming, the results being pubsults being lished as "Professional Papers of the Papers of the U Engineer Department of the United States Survey" (1870-1878). When in 378). Wb 1879 the different geological surveys logical su were united in one bureau of the Deeau of the partment of the Interior, he was made , he was first director of the Survey, holding the wey, holdin position till 1881. He was elected in was electe 1876 a member of the National Academy ational Ace of Science. His best book is "Mounbook is " taineering in the Sierras." He died in B." He di Arizona, Dec. 24, 1901.
King RUFUS, an American states- American states ro
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RUFUS, an American states- American states ro, Me., March 24, man; born in Scarboro, Me., March 24, Harvard Collage in 1755. Studied at Harvard College in 1773, admitted to the bar in 1778; elected bar in 1778; elected to Congress in 1784; elected to the 1789- 14; elected to the United States Senate, serving minister to te, serving 1789- States minister t 1796; was United States Great Britain, 1796-1803; elected third 1803; elected third time to Senate in 1813, and won renown 13, and won renown ech on the burning as an orator by speech on the burning of Washington by the British. In 1819- British. In 1819- 1825 member of Senate, then minister to te, then minister to England. He was the Federalist canthe Federalist candidate for the vice-presidency in 1804 presidency in 1804 amilton, wrote the and 1808. With Hamilton, wrote the "Camillus Letters." He died in Jamai- He died in Jamalca, Long Island, N. Y., April 29, 1827. Z., April 29, 1827. STARR, an Amer-
King HENRY CHURCHILL, URCH an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY CHURCHILL, URCH an American educator; born in Hillsdale, en Mich., in 1858. He graduated from graducted Oberlin College in 1878 and from Oberan lin Theological Seminary in 1882. He took post-graduate courses at Harvard and acted as tutor at Oberlin College Oberlin C from 1879 to 1882. He was successively was succes professor of philosophy, professor of profess dent of th theology, dean and president of that institution. He was appointed to the latinted to the ter position in 1902. He wrote much on wrote mu religious and economic subjects. He was objects a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation egie Foun and was a member of many other orothe ma ganizations. He wrote: "The Laws of Friendship, Human and Divine" (1909); Divine "The Ethics of Jesus" (1909); "Re- (1909) ligion as Life" (1913); "Fundamental Questions" (1917).
King (WILLIAM BENJAMIN) AM BENJAMIN) BASIL
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
(WILLIAM BENJAMIN) AM BENJAMIN) BASIL, a clergyman and novelist, born and novelist, born in Charlottetown, Canada, in 1859. He nada, in 1859. Ele was educated in the schools of that city schools of that city and at King's College, Windsor, Canada. Windsor, Canada. He engaged in authorship in 1900 and orship in 1900 and produced many novels including "Let vels including "Let Not Man Put Asunder" (1901); "The der" (1901); "The Giant's Strength" (1907) (1907); "Wild Olive" (907); "Wild Olive" (1910); "Street Called Str Straight" (1912); d Straight" (1912); "The High Heart" (1917); "The City (1917); "The City of Comrades" (1919); and "The Abol- ); and "The Abol- 19). ishing of Death" (1919). IHENRY, United
King THOMAS STARR, an American clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS STARR, an American clergyman; born in New York City, in New York City, Dec. 17, 1824. During the Civil War he cause ng the Civil War he worked earnestly ly for the Union r the Union cause tor in raising large and was the chief factor in raising large sums of money for the United States the United States Commission. Author of sion. Author f Sanitary r Legends, Land- "White Hills, Their Legends, Land- His writings were scapes and Poetry." His writings were published under the title of "Patriotism title of "Patriotism and Other Papers." He died March 4, He died March 4, 1864.
King HORATIO, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORATIO, an American statesman; born in Paris, Me., June 21, 1811; learned the printer's trade; clerk er's in the postoffice department in Washington in 1839; first assistant postmastertani general in 1854; was postmaster-general January-March, 1861; was the first man in public office to deny the power of a the po State to withdraw from the Union. His the Uni publications include "An Oration before n Oration the Union Literary Society of Washingiety of ton" (1841); and "Sketches of Travel; etches of cr Twelve Months in Europe" (1878). Europe He died in Washington, D. C., May 20, D. C., 1897.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's gathered these Kings in 1921 with no way of knowing which would keep their names. Senator William Henry King, then in his first term, stayed in the Senate until 1941; Rufus King, the Federalist candidate of 1804 and 1808, is remembered today less as an orator than as a signer of the Constitution and an early opponent of extending slavery. Two entries have been overtaken by facts Collier's did not have: Clarence King, first director of the Geological Survey, was found by later biographers to have lived a second life for thirteen years as James Todd, a Black Pullman porter married to Ada Copeland, while Henry Churchill King left Oberlin's presidency in 1927 and is now known chiefly for the King-Crane Commission of 1919, which surveyed opinion in the former Ottoman lands and whose report was shelved. Thomas Starr King's statue represented California in the National Statuary Hall until 2009, when it was replaced by one of Ronald Reagan; of the set, the novelist Basil King, once widely read, has faded most completely.
Written for this edition, 2026.