Morris
Morris names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Morris GOUVERNEUR, American story writer and novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GOUVERNEUR, American story writer and novelist; born in New York, 1876. Educated at Yale University, graduating in 1898. Engaged in literary work, contributing stories to magazines, which were collected and published in book form. Has also written scenarios for the moving-picture screen. His published works include: "A Bunch of Grapes" ( 1897); "Tom Beauling" (1901); "The Pagan's Progress" (1904); "Ellen ; " Aladdin O'Brien" (1902); and Her Man" (1904); and Other Stories" (1908); "Putting on ); " The Footprint, the Screws" (1909 ); "Spread Eagle" (1910); "The Voice in the Rice" (1910); "It, and Others" (1912); "If You Touch Them They Vanish" (1913); "The Incandescent Lily" (1914); "His Daughter" ( 1918); "The Wild Goose" (1919). MORRIS, SIR LEWIS, an English poet ; born in Carmarthen, Wales, in 1833. He was where in 1855 he was graduated firsteducated at Oxford, class in classics, and won the Chancellor's prize; practiced law till 1881, then honorary secretary, afterward treasurer, to the University of Wales; in 1877 elected an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Oxford; was knighted in 1895. He wrote: "Songs of Two Worlds" (1872, 1874, and 1875); "The Epic of Hades" (1876); "Songs Unsung "; "Idylls and Lyrics," etc. He died Nov. 12, 1907. financier, and a signer of the Declaration American of Independence; born in Lancashire, England, Jan. 20, 1734.
Morris SIR EDWARD PATRICK, Newfoundland statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR EDWARD PATRICK, Newfoundland statesman; born at St. John's in 1859, he studied at Ottawa University, and after being called to the bar was elected in 1885 to the legislature. From 1890 to 1895 he was Attorney-General and in the following years led in the campaign of the reorganization of the railroads. From 1903 onward he was head of the Justice Department and in 1909 became Premier. He represented Newfoundland in London on the French shore question, and at the Imperial Conpurified by recrystallization. It crystal-ference in 1.911. He was knighted in 1904, and made Privy Councillor seven years later. The legal work known as "Morris's Reports" are his chief contribution to literature.
Morris WILLIAM, an English
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English . land. March 24, 1834. He was graduated at Oxford. His artistic bent prompted him to embark in the designing and for house interiors. Morris published an manufacture of high-class decorations epic poem, " Jason" (1867); "The Earthly Paradise" ( 1868-1870); "Love Is Enough" (1873); "Sigurd the Volsung" dinavian works, translated Virgil's (1877); etc. He translated various Scan- "Æneid" and Homer's "O English verse, and published several lectures on art. He was a leader of the " Odyssey" into socialistic movement in Great Britain. 3, 1896. He died in Hammersmith, England, Oct. the S. enterance to Charleston Harbor,
Morris CLARA, an American actress
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CLARA, an American actress; born in Toronto, Canada, in 1849; was taken to Cleveland, O., when an infant. In 1869 she became the leading lady in Wood's Theater, Cincinnati, O., and a year later joined Daly's Fifth Avenue Company, New York. She soon achieved prominence in emotional rôles, and afterward made many tours throughout the United States. Her leading rôles include Camille; Alixe; Miss Multon; Mercy Merrick in "The New Magdalene"; Cora in "L'Article 47"; etc. She is the author of "A Silent Singer"; "Little Jim Crow"; "Autobiography of Clara Morris"; "A Paste-Board Crown"; etc.
Morris GOUVERNEUR, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GOUVERNEUR, an American statesman ; born in Morrisania, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1752. He was member of the Continental Congress , 1777-1780; of the committee that drafted the Constitution, 1787; minister to France, 1792-1794; United States Senator from New York, 1800-1803. He was noted for ability both in political thought and political action. Specimens of his writing can be seen in Jared Sparks's "Memoirs of Gouverneur Morris" (3 vols. 1832), Annie Cary Morris's "Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris" (2 vols. 1889), etc. He died in Morrisania, Nov. 6, 1816.
Morris ROLAND SLETOR, United States Ambassador to Japan
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROLAND SLETOR, United States Ambassador to Japan, appointed by President Wilson in July, 1917; born in Olympia, Wash., in 1874; educated at Princeton University. In 1899 he began the practice of law in Philadelphia, specializing in corporation law. he has taken an active part in the counlaw. In politics cils of the Democratic party, being a delegate to several of the national conventions, and State chairman of the party in Pennsylvania. poet; born in Walthamstow, Essex, Eng-
Morris ROBERT, an America at an early age
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an America at an early age, he embarked in Coming to mercantile business in Philadelphia, and in the Revolution took a prominent part inpholding the National cause. 1775, he was elected to Congress, and in In 1781' appointed Superintendent of Fi- He died in Philadelphia, Pa., nance. May 8, 1806.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled this page in 1921 it gave William Morris a cramped, garbled paragraph noting his poems and his socialism; he has since become far the biggest name here, remembered less for The Earthly Paradise than as the father of the Arts and Crafts movement, founder of the Kelmscott Press, author of News from Nowhere, and designer of patterns still printed and sold under the Morris and Co. name. Sir Lewis Morris, a knighted best-seller in his day and a candidate for the laureateship after Tennyson, is now almost entirely unread. Of the Americans, Gouverneur Morris the statesman is now routinely credited with the final wording of the United States Constitution, including its We the People preamble, while Robert Morris, described here only as Superintendent of Finance, ended his life in a debtors' prison after land speculation ruined him, a detail Collier's passed over. The others faded: Clara Morris died in 1925, Gouverneur Morris the story writer kept working in Hollywood until his death in 1953, Roland Sletor Morris left Tokyo in 1920, and Sir Edward Morris, made a baron in 1918, led a Newfoundland that gave up self-government in 1934 and joined Canada in 1949.
Written for this edition, 2026.