Stevens
Stevens names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stevens THADDEUS, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THADDEUS, an American statesman; born in Danville, Vt., April 4, 1792; was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1814; studied law and was admitted to the Maryland bar. He kept aloof from politics till the election of Jackson in 1828, when he became an active member of the Whig party. In 1833 and for several succeeding years, he was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature and became distinguished by his opposition to slavery. He was appointed a canal commissioner in 1838, and rendered important services to the state in the promotion of its system of internal improvements. Subsequently he removed to Lancaster, and for six years practiced law. But in 1848 and again in 1850 he was elected to Congress, where he maintained strong opposition to the Fugitive-Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and all measures favoring the independence of the South. In 1858 he was again elected to Congress and retained his seat till his de death, in Washington, D. C., Aug. 11, 1868. NOLOGY, an educational non-sectarian institution in Hoboken, N. J.; founded in 1870; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 46; students, 522; president, A. C. Humphreys, LL.D.
Stevens JAMES STACY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES STACY, an American educator, born in Lima, N. Y., in 1864. He was educated at the University of Rochester and at Syracuse University. From 1885 to 1891 he was instructor of science at Cook Academy, Montour Falls, N. Y. In 1891 he became professor of physics at the University of Maine; in 1915, dean of its College of Arts and Sciences; and from 1917 to 1919, acting head of its department of English. He was a member of several American and foreign scientific societies. Besides frequent contributions to scientific, educational, and literary periodicals, he wrote "Outlines of General Physics" (1900); "Outlines of Laboratory Physics" (1901); "Theory of Measurements" (1915); "A Dramatization of Job" (1917); and "Corollaries of Infinity" (1919).
Stevens JOHN CALVIN, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN CALVIN, an American architect, born at Boston, Mass., in 1855. After graduating from the Portland High School in 1873, he entered an architectural office, later becoming successively a member of various firms. He was a member of many philanthropic and art societies and designed many public buildings and private residences in Maine and in other parts of the United States. He wrote, together with A. W. Cobb, "Examples of Domestic Architecture" (1891).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's 1921 sketch of Thaddeus Stevens is oddly bland about a man who was then being cast, in the Dunning-school histories and in films like The Birth of a Nation (1915), as the vengeful villain of Reconstruction; since the 1950s historians have largely reversed that judgment and treat him as the most consistent congressional advocate of Black civil and political equality, a reading popularized for a wide audience by Tommy Lee Jones's portrayal in Lincoln (2012). The fragment about the Hoboken school belongs to Stevens Institute of Technology, which had 522 students and 46 instructors at the end of 1919 and now enrolls roughly 8,000, having admitted women as undergraduates in 1971. John Calvin Stevens, alive and working when the entry was written, went on to a very long career in Portland, Maine, and his shingle-style houses are now the object of preservation campaigns rather than new commissions.
Written for this edition, 2026.