Shepherd
Shepherd names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Shepherd ERD, WILLIAM GUNN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ERD, WILLIAM GUNN, an American writer and war correspondent, born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1878. He was educated in the high schools of St. Paul, and at the University of Michigan. 98, in He began newspaper work in 1898, St. Paul. In 1908 he removed to New York, and acted as correspondent for newspapers in Mexico during the Madero revolution. In 1912 he was in Europe as a correspondent. At the outbreak of the World War he represented newspapers in the United States and saw service in every capital and with every army of both sides of the conflict, except the Turks, Bulgars, and Rumanians. He wrote many articles on the war and the campaigns. He attended the Peace Conference, and wrote an account of its deliberations for several papers. He wrote "The Confessions of a War Correspondent" (1917); "The Scar That Tripled" (1918).
Shepherd WILLIAM R., an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM R., an American educator, born at Charleston, S. C., in 1871. He graduated from Columbia in 1893, and took post-graduate studies in Berlin and Madrid. He was professor of history at Columbia University, and honorary professor of the University of Chile. He acted as delegate to the 1st Pan-American Scientific Conand was secretary of gress, in 1908-9, 3-9, the United States delegation at the 4th International Conference of American States, in 1910. He was a correspondent and a member of many Spanish-American societies. He wrote "Latin America"; "Central and South America"; "The Hispanic Nations of the New World"; "The Story of New Amsterdam," and many articles on the history of colonization.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were still working when Collier's compiled these notices in 1921, and both are now remembered for things the entry does not mention. William Gunn Shepherd's lasting fame rests not on his war books but on his eyewitness dispatch from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire of 25 March 1911, phoned in as he watched workers jump from the ninth floor — still one of the most quoted pieces of American reporting. William R. Shepherd, listed here for his Latin American histories, is known today almost entirely for his "Historical Atlas" (first published 1911), which went through repeated revised editions long after his death and remained a standard classroom reference for much of the twentieth century. Both careers closed in the 1930s, and the Columbia chair Shepherd held helped establish Latin American history as a field in United States universities.
Written for this edition, 2026.