Kingston
Kingston names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Kingston a city and county-seat of Ulster co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Ulster co., N. Y.; on the Hudson river at the E. terminus of the Hudson and Delaware canal, and on the West Shore and other railroads; 91 miles N. of New York City. It comprises the former illages of Kingston, Rondout, and Wilbur; has a large river commerce and trade in coal, brick, lime, lumber, cement, and bluestone; is a trade center for three counties; and contains, Children's Industrial Home, a city hospital, a gravity system of waterworks supplied by mountain streams, and National and savings banks. It received a charter in 1661, under the name of Wiltwick, was first settled in 1665, and was incorporated by patent in 1667. On Feb. 19, 1777, the first State convention adjourned from Fishkill to Kingston, and the first State the first State tution Kingston, and the court house, April 22, 1777. The Legislature met here in September of the same year, but was dispersed by the approach of a British force under Sir Henry Clinton, Oct. 7, when the town was burned. Being afterward rebuilt, it was incorporated as a viilage in 1805, and as a city in 1872. Pop. (1910) 25,- 908; (1920) 26,688.
Kingston chief town of Frontenac co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
chief town of Frontenac co., Ontario, Canada; at the head of Lake Ontario, and at the mouth of Cataraqui creek, 161 miles by rail E. N. E. of Toronto. It has a number of handsome public buildings, and is the seat of the Royal Military College of Canada, of Queen's University, with museums and an observatory, and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Women's Medical College affiliated to it. Here also are a business college and a collegiate and training institute for teachers. The city has, besides excellent railway facilities, good water communication by the lake, the St. Lawrence, and the Rideau canal, which last connects it with Ottawa. It possesses a large, sheltered harbor, with an active trade, and strongly fortified; and, besides busy ship- Vol. V-Cyc-W yards, has manufactories of locomotives and stationary engines, machinery, leather, boots and shoes, agricultural implements, wooden wares, etc. Kingston is the seat of an Anglican bishop and of a Roman Catholic archbishop. Its site was occupied by the old French fort of Frontenac. The town was the capital of Canada from 1841 to 1844. Pop. about 25,000.
Kingston the commercial capital of Jamaica
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
the commercial capital of Jamaica; on the N. side of a landlocked harbor, the best in the island, and, for its size, one of the best in the world. It was founded in 1693, after the neighboring town of Port Royal had been destroyed by an earthquake. Kingston itself suffered severe losses in life and property as a result of an earthquake in 1907. Pop. about 60,000.
Kingston a borough of Pennsylvania
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Susquehanna river and on the Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley railroads. It is chiefly a residential place but has some important industries, including an adding machine factory, car and machine shops, and manufactories of hosiery. There are important coal mines in the vicinity. Pop. (1910) 6,449; (1920) 8,952.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the four places Collier's described in 1921, the Jamaican one changed most: Kingston was still a colonial port of "about 60,000" then, and since independence in 1962 it has been the capital of a sovereign Jamaica, with a metropolitan population now well over a million. Kingston, Ontario, listed at about 25,000, has grown past 130,000 and still hosts Queen's University and the Royal Military College, though its locomotive works and shipyards are gone (Collier's slip in placing it "at the head of Lake Ontario" — it sits at the lake's eastern foot — has not improved with age). The two American Kingstons went the other way: the New York city that peaked at 26,688 in 1920 lost its cement, bluestone and river-freight trades, gained an IBM plant in the 1950s and lost that too when it closed in 1994, and today counts fewer people than it did when Collier's wrote. Kingston, Pennsylvania, then a coal-country residential borough, saw the anthracite industry collapse after mid-century and the borough drowned by the Susquehanna in the Hurricane Agnes flood of June 1972.
Written for this edition, 2026.