Olmsted
Olmsted names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Olmsted VICTOR HUGO, an American statistician
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
VICTOR HUGO, an American statistician; born at Marion, O., in 1853. After studying at George Washington University he was admitted to the bar in 1884. He served as chief of the division of results in the 10th Census, and from 1883 to 1889 was employed in the General Land Office. From 1889 to 1901 was statistical expert of the United States Department of Labor. He investigated labor conditions in Hawaii in 1900. From 1902 he served in various capacities in the United States Department of Agriculture and in connection with the Census Bureau. From 1906 to 1914 he was chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and from 1913 he was field agent of the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the Department of Agriculture. OLMÜTZ, second city of Moravia, since October, 1918, in Czecho-Slovakia, on the March, 129 miles N. N. E. of Vienna. Notable are the 14th century cathedral (restored 1887); the church of St. Maurice (1472), whose organ has 48 stops and 2,342 pipes; the noble town hall hall , with a steeple 255 feet high; the archiepiscopal palace; and the lofty Trinity column on the Oberring. The former university (1851-1855) is reduced to a theological faculty, with over 200 students and a library of 75,000 volumes. The trade is more important than the manufactures. Olmütz, which in 1640 was superseded by Brünn as the capital of Moravia, suffered severely in both the Thirty and the Seven Years' Wars. In 1848 Ferdinand I. signed his abdication here. OLMÜTZ. CONFERENCE OF, a conference held at Olmütz, a city of Moravia, Austria, Feb. 28-29, 1850, between Russia and Austria respecting the affairs of Germany and especially in reference to the revolts in Hesse and Schleswig - Holstein against their rulers, the Elector of Hesse and the King of Denmark. By the med mediation of Russia, Schleswig - Holstein was given to Denmark, and the Elector Hesse was reinstated.
Olmsted FREDERICK LAW, American landscape architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERICK LAW, American landscape architect; born in Staten Island, N. Y., 1870; graduated from Harvard, studied landscape archi-mark, tecture under his father and began practice in 1895. He has designed many public parks and other city improvements; was a member of the Commission on Improvements of Washington, in 1902; was landscape architect of the Metropolitan Park system of Boston in 1898, and designed plans for Forest Hills, L. I., for the Sage Foundation Homes Co. He became professor of landscape architecture in Harvard in 1903, and member of the National Commission of Fine Arts in 1910.
Olmsted CHARLES TYLER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES TYLER, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop; born in Cohoes, N. Y., 1842. He graduated from Trinity College in 1865, and, after studying divinity at St. Stephen's College, he became professor professor of mathematics in that institution in 1866. He was ordained priest in 1868, and served as rec tor and vicar of several important churches of New York City and Utica, and was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Central N. Y. in 1902, and was appointed bishop of Central N. Y. in 1904.
Olmsted CHARLES SANFORD, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES SANFORD, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop; born at Olmstedville, N. Y., in 1853. He graduated from General Theological Seminary in 1876. He was ordained priest in 1877. He served as rector at various cities in New York and Pennsylvania until 1902, when he was consecrated bishop of Colorado. He wrote "December ember Musings" (poems), (1898); "Discipline of Perfection" (1902); "Essays on Mediæval Poets" (1904). Died in 1918.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The Frederick Law Olmsted described by Collier's in 1921 was the son, then in mid-career; he lived until 1957, worked on national and state park planning (he is credited with drafting the National Park Service Organic Act's charge to leave scenery "unimpaired for future generations"), and his family firm, Olmsted Brothers, carried on until 1980. The family home and office at Brookline, Massachusetts, became the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in 1979, and the elder Olmsted, designer of Central Park and unmentioned here, is now the far better-known name. Olmütz, which Collier's notes had passed to Czecho-Slovakia in October 1918, is today Olomouc in the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia having split in 1993; its truncated university was refounded in 1946 as Palacký University with roughly twenty thousand students, and the "lofty Trinity column on the Oberring" was made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000. The three American clergymen and the statistician Victor Hugo Olmsted have left little trace beyond entries like these.
Written for this edition, 2026.