Lamont
Lamont names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Lamont THOMAS WILLIAM, an American banker and philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS WILLIAM, an American banker and philanthropist, born at Claverack, N. Y., in 1870. He graduated from Harvard University in 1892. After some time spent in newspaper work he became secretary and treasurer of the Bankers Trust Co., New Trust Co. York. In 1911 he was made a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and was a director in many important financial institutions. During the World War he rendered efficient service both in the United States and in France as an official of the Red Cross. He also acted as financial adviser in Paris during the session of the Peace Conference. LA MOTTE-FOUQUÉ FRIEDRICH, BARON DE, a German (-fö-kā'), author; born in Brandenburg, Feb. 12, 1777. Entering the army, he served in the campaign of the Rhine, and fought the French for the liberty of Germany in the beginning of the 19th century. His first works appeared under the name of "Pellegrin"; which contributed to fan the flame of patriotic ardor which led his countrymen to final victory. Leaving the army in 1831, he removed to Halle, where he delivered lectures on poetry and history. "Undine" gained him a world-wide reputation. Among his other works are "Sintram," a fairy tale; "As- Knight"; and the poems, "Siglauga lauga's urd," "Corona," "Bertrand du Guesclin," etc. He died in Berlin, Jan. 23, 1843. an. 23, 1848,
Lamont DANIEL SCOTT, an American executive officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DANIEL SCOTT, an American executive officer; born in Cortlandville, N. Y., Feb. 9, 1851; was educated at Union College and engaged in journalism; private secretary to President Cleveland in 1885-1889 and Secretary of War 1893-1897, then vice-president of Northern Pacific R. R. Co., died 1905.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Thomas W. Lamont was a Morgan partner of ten years' standing and fresh from the Paris Peace Conference; the second half of his career was the larger one. He went on to arrange loans that shaped interwar finance, acted for years as an apologist for Japanese policy in China, and served as chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co. from 1943 until his death in 1948; Harvard's Lamont Library, the first American library built specifically for undergraduates, opened in 1949 on his bequest, and his son Corliss Lamont became a well-known humanist philosopher and civil-liberties litigant. The Daniel S. Lamont entry needs no updating, since he had already died in 1905 when it was written. The stray Fouqué notice belongs to a separate article; "Undine" survives today chiefly through Lortzing's opera and Ashton's 1958 ballet rather than as reading.
Written for this edition, 2026.