Macon
Macon names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Macon NATHANIEL, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NATHANIEL, an American statesman; born in Warren co., N. C., Dec. 17, 1757. He was educated at Princeton College; in 1777 left college. While yet in the army, in 1780, he was elected a member of the Senate of North Carolina; and when the Constitution of the United States was submitted to the vote of the people of that State he firmly opposed it, as conferring too much power on the new government. He retained till the end of his life this dislike of the Constitution, and his unlimited confidence in the capacity of the people for self-government. He was elected a member of the United States House of Representatives in 1791, and continued in that office by successive re-elections till 1815. In 1816 he was elected to the Senate, where he served till 1828, when he resigned his seat, having been then a member of Congress for 37 successive years, the longest term of service that had then fallen to the lot of any legislator in the United States. He died on his plantation, in the same county where he was born, June 29, 1837.
Macon a city and county-seat of Bibb co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Bibb co., Ga., on the Ocmulgee river; and on the Central of Georgia, the Southern, Georgia Southern and Florida, the Macon, Dublin and Savannah, the Georgia, and the Macon and Birmingham railroads. It is connected by steamboat routes with Brunswick and Savannah; 88 miles S. of Atlanta. It is in the heart of the cotton belt, and is the manufacturing and jobbing center for southern Georgia and neighboring States, with a population of 1,000,000, and an annual trade of $100,000,000. It contains Mercer University, St. Stanislaus College, Wesleyan Female College, Mount de Sales Academy, Gresham High School, Ballard Normal School for Colored Pupils, and the Georgia Academy for the There are electric light and street road plants, waterworks, National State banks, daily and weekly newspapers, a hospital, public library, a United States Government Building, and interesting Indian mounds. It has large cotton and knitting mills, foundries, agricultural works, lumber and planing mills. Pop. (1910) 40,665; (1920) 52,995.
Macon a city and county-seat of Macon co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Macon co., Mo.; on the Burlington Route and the Wabash railroads; 20 miles N. of Moberly. It has the County Insane Asylum, St. James Military Academy, waterworks, gas, and electric light plants, several State and National banks, and weekly newspapers newspa; carriage and factories, flour mills, and foundry. Pop. (1910) 3,584; (1920) 3,549. MÂCON (Matisco of Cæsar), the capital of the French department of Saône et-Loire, on the right bank of 41 miles N. of Lyons; a dull, modernized place, it has a 12-arch bridge, with a view of Mont Blanc; a fragment of an old cathedral, demolished at the Revolution; the fine Romanesque church of St. Pierre (rebuilt 1866); and a statue of Lamartine, who was born here; carries on an extensive trade in wines known as Mâcon, like but lighter than Burgundy, as well as in corn, cattle, etc., and has manufactures of watches, brass, faience, etc. Pop. about 20,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Macon, Georgia, had 52,995 people and "interesting Indian mounds"; those mounds were protected as Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936 and redesignated Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in 2019, and in 2012 the city merged with Bibb County to govern about 157,000 residents as Macon-Bibb County. Of the schools listed, Mercer University and Wesleyan (which dropped "Female" from its name) survive; the cotton mills and jobbing trade that defined the city have largely gone, replaced by distribution, health care and aerospace work. Nathaniel Macon's 37 consecutive years in Congress, called "the longest term of service that had then fallen to the lot of any legislator," has since been far exceeded, most notably by Robert Byrd's 57 years. Macon, Missouri, remains a small town of roughly 5,000, and Mâcon in France has grown to about 33,000, still trading on the wines that bear its name.
Written for this edition, 2026.