Newell
Newell names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Newell FREDERICK HAYNES, civil engineer and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK HAYNES, civil engineer and author. Born at Bradford, Pa., in 1862, he graduated in 1885 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and afterward engaged in mining in Colorado. In 1888 he became assistant hydraulic engineer to the United States Geological Survey, becoming successively hydrographer, chief engineer, and director in the United States Reclamation Service. Since 1914 he has been professor of civil engineering at the University of Illinois. His works include: "Agriculture by Irrigation"; "Public Lands of the United States"; "Engineering as a Career." trator; born in McDonough co., Ill., in 1862. He first worked as a photographer, and made crayon portraits at Jacksonville, Ill. Later he came to New York and studied at the Art Students' League, making his home at Leonia, N. J. Here he began the quaint humorous illustrations for periodicals which first brought him notice. Among the popular books he wrote and illustrated are: "Topseys and Turveys" (1893-1894); "Peter Newell's Pictures and Rhymes" (1899); "The Hole Book" (1908); "Jungle Jangle" (1909); "Slant Book" (1910); "Rocket Book" (1912); etc. Mr. Newell also illustrated books by Mark Twain, Frank Stockton, and J. K. Bangs.
Newell ROBERT HENRY ("OR- PHEUS C
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT HENRY ("OR- PHEUS C. KERR"), an American humorist; born in New York City in 1836. He was connected with the New York "Mercury" and "World," and was editor of "Hearth and Home" from 1874 to 1876. Among his works are: "The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers" (1862-1868); "The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems" (1864); "The Cloven Foot," a travesty of Dickens's "Edwin Drood" (1870); "Versatilities" (1871); "There Was Once a Man" (1884). He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in August, 1901.
Newell PETER, American illus- New Forest now is managed by
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PETER, American illus- New Forest now is managed by the court of Verderers as a public pleasure ground and cattle farm.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Frederick Haynes Newell was living and teaching at the University of Illinois; he died in 1932, and the Reclamation Service he had directed was renamed the Bureau of Reclamation in 1923 and went on to build Hoover Dam and hundreds of other Western projects far beyond the scale of the irrigation he described in "Agriculture by Irrigation." Peter Newell, listed as an active illustrator, died in 1924, but his novelty picture books "The Hole Book," "The Slant Book" and "The Rocket Book" have outlasted his magazine work and are still reprinted in facsimile, and his 1901 illustrations for "Alice in Wonderland" are collected. Robert Henry Newell, the Civil War humorist whose pen name "Orpheus C. Kerr" punned on "office seeker," is the one figure whose reputation has faded almost entirely; his papers are now read by historians rather than for laughs.
Written for this edition, 2026.