Shaw
Shaw names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Shaw GEORGE BERNARD, a British playwright
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE BERNARD, a British playwright, born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1856. He attended school until he was fifteen, when he became a clerk in a real estate office, which position he held for five years, until he left his native city to seek a career as a journalist in London. For more than ten years he gained a GEORGE BERNARD SHAW precarious livelihood as a "free lance" journalist, meanwhile devoting his spare time to writing novels. Most of these early works were published serially in Socialist papers and magazines, and attracted little general attention. Among them are "Cashel Byron's Profession" (in book form, 1886); "An Unsocial Socialist" (1899); and "Love Among the Art ists" (1900). In 1885 Shaw became dramatic critic of the "Pall Mall Gazette" and, later, of "The Saturday Review," and began immediately to attract public attention by his masterly reviews. From this first association with the stage, he began to write plays himself, the first few of which were produced and gained him considerable reputation, but did not prove financially successful. Among these were "Widowers' Houses" (produced at the Independent Theater, 1892); and "Arms and the Man" (1894). The turning point in his favor came in 1904, when his "John Bull's Other Island" was produced and immediately became popular. Many of his plays have been presented in this country and have been appreciated by select audiences, but Shaw's plays are of too subtle a style ever to attain broad popularity. He has also been prominent as a Socialist speaker and was one of the founders of the Fabian Society. During the World War Shaw showed himself strongly in favor of the Allied cause, but at the same time his scathing denouncement of many of the inefficiencies at home made him strongly disliked by those who believed that war-time was no time for criticism. Among his most recent plays are: "The Inca of Perusalem" (1915); "Heartbreak House" (1917); and "O'Flaherty V. C." (1919).
Shaw LESLIE MORTIER, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LESLIE MORTIER, an American statesman; born in Morristown, Vt., Nov. 2, 1848; was graduated at Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Vernon, Ia., in 1874, and at the Iowa College of Law in 1876, and in the latter year began the practice of law in Denison, Ia. Some years later he became interested in banking and was made president of the Bank of Denison and also of the Bank of Manilla, Ia. He first became prominent ent in politics in 1896, where he came out strongly for William McKinley, and soon acquired a high reputation as a public speaker. He was elected governor of Iowa for the terms of 1898-1900 and 1900-1902; and was chairman of the International Monetary Conference in Indianapolis, Ind., in 1898. He resigned the office of governor in 1902 to succeed Lyman J. Gage as Secretary of the United States Treasury Department. He retired in 1913, to engage in the banking business.
Shaw JOHN, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American naval officer; born in Mount Mellick, Ireland, in 1773; removed to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1790; and received employment on a merchant vessel. When war with France became probable, he joined the United States navy as a lieutenant; and was placed in command of the schooner "Enterprise" in December, 1799. During an eight months' cruise with this vessel he engaged in five severe actions, recaptured 11 American prizes and took 5 French privateers. His most severe battle occurred with the "Flambeau," a vessel of 100 men and 14 guns. He forced her to surrender in less than an hour after about 50 of her crew were either killed or wounded, while the loss to the "Enterprise" was 10. He was promoted captain in August, 1807, and commanded the fleet which was blockaded by the British in the Thames river in 1814. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 17, 1823.
Shaw ANNA HOWARD, an Ameritan woman suffragist and publicist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANNA HOWARD, an Ameritan woman suffragist and publicist, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, in 1847. She was brought to the United States and graduated from the in her childhood and dhood Boston Theological School, in 1878. She was ordained to the Methodist ministry, but was not allowed to preach on account ANNA HOWARD SHAW of her sex, and in 1880 she was ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church, being the first woman ordained in that body. She became active as a suffrage lecturer in 1885, and continued to lecture on behalf of the movement for the remainder of her life. From 1904 to 1915 she was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and from 1915 was honorary president. She was one of the most brilliant and effective of American workers for suffrage. She wrote "The Story of a Pioneer." She died in 1919.
Shaw LEMUEL, an American ju rist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEMUEL, an American ju rist; born in Barnstable, Massardan Harvard University in 1800 and was admitted to the bar in 1804. He followed his profession in Boston, Mass., where he attained eminence; was a member of the State Senate in 1821-1822 and 1828-1829; and chiefjustice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1830-1860. He won a high reputation as a jurist of marked ability, being accorded a foremost place among the greatest New England jurists. Among the most noted cases at which he presided was that of Prof. John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman and that of the convent rioters in 1834. His publications include "Fourth of July Ora- Address" tion" (1815); "Inaugural (1830); and "Addresses at the Opening of the New Court House, Worcester" (1845). He died in Boston, Mass., March 30, 1861.
Shaw HENRY WHEELER, an American humorist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY WHEELER, an American humorist; born in Lanesborough, Mass., April 21, 1818; early went West and tried his hand at various occupations, working on a steamboat on the Ohio river, farming, and engaging in auctioneering. In 1859 he began to write and in 1860 sent "An Essa on the Muel, bi Josh Billings" to a New York paper. It was extensively copied. His most successful literary venture, however, was a travesty on the "Old Farmer's Almanac," 127,000 copies of which were sold in its second year. He began to lecture in 1863, and for 20 years previous to his death contributed regularly to the New York. "World." He also published "Josh Billings, His Sayings," "Josh Sayings," "Josh Billings On Ice," "Everyboddy's Friend," "Josh Billing's Spice Box," etc. He died in Monterey, Cal., Oct. 14, 1885.
Shaw JOHN BALCOM, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN BALCOM, an American educator, born at Bellport, N. Y., in 1860, He graduated from Lafayette College in 1885, and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1888. In the same year he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and was pastor of the West End Church, from 1888 to 1904, and of the Second Church of Chicago, from 1904 to 1913. From the latter year to 1915 he was pastor of Immanuel Church, Los Angeles. In 1915 he was elected president of Elmira College for Women, serving until 1917. He contributed extensively to magazines and religious papers, and wrote "Four Great Questions" (1898); "One Step at a Time" (1904); "The Work That Wins" (1905); "The Angel in the Sun." He was a delegate to many international meetings and conventions.
Shaw JOHN WILLIAM, an Ameri
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN WILLIAM, an Ameri. can Roman Catholic archbishop, born in Mobile, Ala., in 1863. He was educated at the Academy of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, in Mobile, Mobile, and took_postgraduate studies in Ireland and in Rome. He was ordained priest in 1888. After serving as missionary in Montgomery, Ala., he became rector of the Cathedral of Mobile, and chancellor of the diocese, in 1891. In 1910, he was appointed coadjutor bishop of San Antonio, Tex., and became bishop of San Antonio in 1911. In 1918 he became archbishop of New Orleans.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the eight Shaws gathered here, one has swallowed the page. Collier's in 1921 judged that George Bernard Shaw's plays were "of too subtle a style ever to attain broad popularity" and listed Heartbreak House as recent news; he went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, write Saint Joan, take an Academy Award for the 1938 screenplay of Pygmalion, and die in 1950 at ninety-four, and Pygmalion became the musical My Fair Lady in 1956. Anna Howard Shaw, the first woman ordained by the Methodist Protestant Church, died in 1919 without seeing the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in August 1920, which Collier's does not mention. Lemuel Shaw is remembered now less for the Webster murder trial than for Roberts v. City of Boston (1849), in which he upheld segregated schooling, a ruling later invoked in Plessy v. Ferguson; Leslie M. Shaw, governor of Iowa and Treasury secretary under Roosevelt, and John Shaw of the schooner Enterprise have faded to specialists.
Written for this edition, 2026.