Stanton
Stanton names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stanton EDWIN MCMASTERS, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN MCMASTERS, an American statesman; born in Steuben-- ville, O., Dec. 19, 1814; was admitted to the bar in 1836; and began to practice in Cadiz, O. He soon rose to eminence and in December, 1860, was appointed Attorney-General of the United States. In. 1862 he succeeded Simon Cameron as: Secretary of War and held that office for six years. His opposition to President Johnson's plan of reconstruction led the latter to request his resignation in 1867. He refused to resign, but on Aug. 12: surrendered his office under protest to General Grant as secretary ad interim. On Jan. 13, 1868, the United States Senate reinstated him, but the President appointed Adjt.-Gen. Lorenzo Thomas to fill his place. Stanton refused to vacate the office, however, and the impeachment of the President followed. On the President's acquittal, Stanton resigned and resumed law practice. On Dec. 20, 1869, he was nominated by President Grant as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, but died before taking his seat, in Washington, Dec. 24.
Stanton OSCAR FITZALAN, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OSCAR FITZALAN, an American naval officer, born in Sag Har- Har bor, N. Y., in 1834. He was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, in 1849, and gradually rose through the various grades of the service, becoming a rear admiral in July, 1894, just before he was retired. He served in various posts throughout the Civil War, and saw service in Chinese and Japanese waters from 1872 to 1874. Besides holding commands on various vessels of the United States Navy, his assignments included service at the New York Navy Yard (1864-1865), Norfolk Navy Yard (1874-1877), Newport Torpedo Station (1878), Naval Station, New London, Conn. (1885-1889), Newport Training Station (1890-1891), and the Philadelphia Naval Home (1891-1893). He was a member of various patriotic and naval societies.
Stanton ELIZABETH CADY N. Y., Nov. 12
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH CADY N. Y., Nov. 12, 1815; was graduated at Emma Willard's Seminary, in Troy, N. Y., in 1832; called the first Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848; addressed the New York Legislature on the rights of married women in 1854, and in advocacy of divorce for drunkenness in 1860; and was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1868. She was a member of numerous Woman's Suffrage societies, editor of "The Revolution," and the author of "The History of Woman Suffrage"; "Eighty Years and More"; "The Woman's Bible"; and other works. She died in 1902.
Stanton STANTON, THEODORE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STANTON, THEODORE, an American journalist, son of Henry B. and Eliza- Cady; born in Seneca Feb. 10, 1851. He was a correspondent for the New York "Tribune" at Berlin from 1880, and later engaged as a journalist in Paris. He translated Goff's "Life of Thiers" (1879), and wrote: "The Woman Question in Europe" (1884) and "Life of Rosa Bonheur" (1910). He edited several volumes of letters relating to the World War.
Stanton FRANK LEBBY, an American poet and journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK LEBBY, an American poet and journalist, born at Charleston, S. C., in 1857. After being connected with various newspapers in Atlanta, Ga., he joined the staff of the Atlanta "Constitution," where for several years he contributed daily verse and prose. He published "Songs of the Soil" (1894); "Comes One With a Song" (1898), and "Little Folks Down South" (1904).
Stanton ELIZABETH CADY extent
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH CADY extent, dotted with islands, 325 miles from the sea. Kallina Point marks its lower extremity, and Inga Peak dominates the entrance to the united river above the pool. Stanley Pool is an important station of the African International Association, and several bodies of missionaries are laboring there.
Stanton ELIZABETH CADY, an American reformer: born in Johnstown
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH CADY, an American reformer: born in Johnstown,
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of these seven, Elizabeth Cady Stanton has grown far larger than Collier's 1921 notice suggests: the entry lists her books and her 1848 Seneca Falls convention, then closes flatly with "She died in 1902" and says nothing of the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in August 1920 just months before the volume appeared. She is now the standard starting point for the American women's rights story, taught in every survey course, and the Adelaide Johnson marble showing her with Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, given to the Capitol in 1921, was moved from a basement crypt up to the Rotunda in 1997. Edwin McMasters Stanton remains well known as Lincoln's war secretary and the man whose refusal to vacate his office triggered Andrew Johnson's impeachment; the Tenure of Office Act at the heart of that fight was repealed in 1887. The rest have faded: Rear Admiral Oscar Fitzalan Stanton and the journalist Theodore Stanton (Elizabeth's son, remembered mainly for editing her letters) are now specialists' names, while Frank Lebby Stanton of the Atlanta Constitution survives chiefly as the lyricist of the song Mighty Lak' a Rose. Note too that the page's sixth entry is a printing accident: under the heading Elizabeth Cady it prints a description of Stanley Pool on the Congo, islands, Kallina Point and all.
Written for this edition, 2026.