Schuyler
Schuyler names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Schuyler PHILIP, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
PHILIP, an American military officer; born in Albany, N. Y., in November, 1733. He served in the war French and Indians in 1756. In June, 1775, he was commissioned commander of an army in New York with the rank of Major-General . He was about to move the army into Canada, but he was taken sick, and was succeeded in September by General Montgomery . He was appointed delegate to the Continental Congress later in the same year, and was again a delegate in 1777. In the latter year also he commanded the Continental forces against General Burgoyne, but was superseded by General Gates, ir consequence of the jealousy with which Congress regarded him . His conduct was vindicated by a court of inquiry. Later he rendered important services in military affairs, but he declined to take command of an army. He was a member of the Congress in 1778, and while holding that post resigned from the army in 1779, remaining in Congress till 1781. He was Federalist United States Senator from New York in 1789-1791, and was again elected a Senator, in place of Aaron Burr, in 1797. One of his daughters was the wife of Alexander Hamilton . He died in Albany, Nov. 18, 1804. S-Cyc Vol 8
Schuyler MONTGOMERY, American diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MONTGOMERY, American diplomat, born at Stamford, Conn., in 1877. He graduated from Columbia University in 1899 and took postgraduate studies at that university. He was appointed second secretary of the American Embassy at Petrograd in 1902, and in 1904 served as secretary of legation and consul-general at Bangkok, Siam. He served as chargé and first secretary to Rumania, Servia, Russia, Japan, and Mexico. In 1913 he was appointed minister to Ecuador. In 1914-15 he served as special agent of the United States to Russia. In 1918 he was commissioned a captain in the Officers' Reserve Corps, and served in the Ordnance Department. In 1918-19 he was chief intelligence officer in Siberia. In 1919 he was discharged with the rank of major. He was a member of many historical societies and contributed articles on Oriental and literary subjects to various periodicals.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 sketch of Philip Schuyler notes his Saratoga command, his supersession by Gates and that "one of his daughters was the wife of Alexander Hamilton" — and says nothing of the fact that he was among the largest slaveholders in the Albany area, which now dominates public discussion of him. His Albany house is preserved as the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, and the bronze statue of him that stood outside Albany City Hall was ordered removed by the mayor in 2020 and taken down in 2023. Meanwhile the 2015 musical Hamilton made his daughters Eliza, Angelica and Peggy far better known than the general himself. The military and congressional facts in the entry still stand; what has moved is which parts of his life are thought to matter.
Written for this edition, 2026.