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Read names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Read JOHN MEREDITH, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN MEREDITH, an American jurist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 21, 1797; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1812; admitted to the bar in 1818. He held a seat in the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1822-1823; was United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1837-1844; and served as chief-justice and solicitor-general of the United States in 1860-1874. He was long a Democrat, and was prominent prom in the fo founding of the Free-soil branch of that party. He affiliated with the Republican party when it was formed, and in the presidential campaign of 1856 made an address on the "Power of Congress over Slavery in the Territories," which had much influence throughout the country. In 1858, on the first victory of the Republican party in Pennsylvania, he was elected judge of the Supreme Court, by a majority of 30,000. In 1860 he was mentioned as candidate for the a presidential nomination with Abraham Lincoln for Vice-President, but early in that year Simon Cameron defeated the movement in the Pennsylvania Republican Convention. Several votes, however, were cast for him in the Chicago Convention, though he exerted all his influence in favor of Lincoln. He was the author of "Views on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus" which became the basis of the law of March 3, 1863, authorizing the President to suspend the habeas corpus act. His opinions are found in 41 volumes of reports. The best known of his numerous published addresses include "Plan for the Administration of the Girard Trust" (1833); "The Law of Evidence" (1864); "Jefferson Davis and His Complicity in the Vol. VII-Cyc Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" (1866); etc. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 29, 1874.
Read THOMAS BUCHANAN, an American portrait-painter and poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS BUCHANAN, an American portrait-painter and poet; born in Chester co., Pa., March 12, 1822. His most important works are: "Poems" (1847); "Lays and Ballads" (1848) "The Wagoner of the Alleghanies" (1862); and "Poetical Works" (1867). His best known poems are "Sheridan's Ride" and "Drifting." He also published: "Female Poets of America" (1848); "The Pilgrims of the Great St. Bernard," a romance; "The New Pastoral" (1854), his most ambitious poem; "Sylvia; or, The and attorney-general of Pennsylvania, Lost Shepherd" (1857); and "The Good Samaritans" (1867). He died in New York, May 11, 1872. CHARLES READE
Read OPIE, an American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OPIE, an American journalist; born in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1852. He established and edited for many years the "Arkansaw Traveler." His studies of Arkansas life have been widely read, and include: "Len Gansett" (1888); "My Young Master"; "An Arkansaw Planter"; "Up Terrapin River"; "A Kentucky Colonel"; "On the Suwanee River"; "Miss Polly Lop, and Other Stories"; "The Captain's Romance"; "The Jucklins," a novel; "Bolanyo"; "A Yankee from the West"; "A Tennessee Judge"; "In the Alamo" (1900) "Mystery of Margaret" (1907).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the three men Collier's gathered here in 1921, Opie Read was still living: he went on writing and lecturing in Chicago and died there in 1939, aged 86, his fifty-odd novels of Arkansas life now almost entirely out of print. Thomas Buchanan Read's "Sheridan's Ride" was a recitation piece in nearly every American schoolroom when this was written; it has since dropped out of the anthologies, and Read is remembered, if at all, as a minor painter. The entry on John Meredith Read also needs correcting: he was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and earlier attorney-general of that state, not chief justice or solicitor-general of the United States, an error the compositor seems to have made worse by dropping a line of type.
Written for this edition, 2026.