Stevenson
Stevenson names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stevenson ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR, a British author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR, a British author; son of Thomas Stevenson; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 13, 1850; educated at the University of Edinburgh, was intended for his father's profession, but studied ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON law; in 1873 went abroad for his health; wrote for periodicals till 1878, when his first book appeared; visited California in 1879; spent the winter of 1887-1888 in the Adirondacks; cruised in the Pacific; bought a tract of land ("Vailima" or "Five Streams") in Samoa, where he made his home. He published: "An Inland Voyage" (1878); "Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes" (1878); "Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879); "Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers" (1881); "Familiar Studies of Men and Books" (1882); "New Arabian Nights" (1882); "Treasure Island" (1883); "The Silverado Squatters" (1883); "The Dynamiter: More New Arabian Nights" (1885), with Mrs. Stevenson; "A Child's Garden of Verse" (1885); "Prince Otto" (1885); "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886); "Kidnapped" (1886); "Underwoods" (1887); "The Merry Men and Other Tales" (1887); "Memories and Portraits" (1887); "The Black Arrow" (1888); "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889); "Ballads (1891); "The Wrecker" (1891-1892); "A Foot- Note to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" (1892); "David Balfour" (1893); "Island Nights' Entertainments" (1893); "The Ebb Tide" (1894); "Weir of Hermiston" and "St. Ives" (1895-1896), the last two left not quite complete. He died in Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, Dec. 3, 1894.
Stevenson SARA YORKE (Mrs
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SARA YORKE (Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson), an American archæologist, born at Paris, France, in 1847. She was educated in Paris until 1862, and later lived in Mexico, marrying Cornelius Stevenson of Philadelphia, in 1870. The University of Pennsylvania bestowed upon her the honorary degree of Sc. D., the first honorary degree ever conferred by this institution on a woman. In 1897 she was secretary of the American Exploration Society, and in 1904 president of the department of archæology, University of Pennsylvania. From 1894 to 1901 she was a trustee, and since 1908 curator, of the Philadelphia Museums; and from 1899 to 1903 president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Archæological Institute of America. She took an active part in the civic affairs of Philadelphia, being at various times an officer of the Civic Club, and since 1914 its honorary president. In 1909 she was president of the Pennsylvania Equal Suffrage Society. In 1897 she went to Rome on a special mission for the department of archæology of the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1898 to Egypt for the American Exploration Society. During the World War she was the chairman of various relief committees in Philadelphia, and was made by the French Government Officier d'Instruction Publique. She wrote, besides many articles on Egyptian archæology and other topics: "Maximilian in Mexico." In 1908 she became literary editor of the Philadelphia "Public Ledger."
Stevenson EDWARD LUTHER, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD LUTHER, an American educator, born at Rozetta, Illinois, in 1860. He was educated at Franklin (Ind.) College, Johns Hopkins University, and the universities of Jena, Halle, and Heidelberg. From 1881 to 1887 he was principal of high schools and superintendent of schools in Illinois; from 1891 to 1911, professor of history, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; from 1910 to 1917 secretary of the Hispanic Society of America, of which society he became acting director in 1915. He also lectured on historical geography, history, and cartographical subjects at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, University of California, and numerous other scientific and educational institutions. He was a member of several domestic and foreign historical and geographical societies, and published: "Maps Illustrating Discovery and Early Exploration in America, 1502-1530" (1903-1906); "Charter of Queens College (now Rutgers) of 1772" (1907); "Hondius World Map of 1611" (1907); "The Marine World Chart of Nicolo de Canerio" (1908); "Early Spanish Cartography of the New World" (1909); "Atlas of Portolan Charts" (1911); "Portolan Charts, Their Origin and Characteristics" (1911); "The Genoese World Map, 1457" (1912); "Christopher Columbus and His Enterprise" (1913); "Willem Janszoon Blaeu, His Life and Work with Facsimile of His Large World Map of 1605" (1914); "Portolan Atlas 'Conte de Ottoma Freducci, 1537'" (1915); "Facsimiles of Portolan Charts" (1917); "Terrestrial and Celestial Globes" (1917).
Stevenson BURTON EGBERT, born at Chillicothe
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BURTON EGBERT, born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1872. He was educated at Princeton University, and became city editor of the Chillicothe "Daily News" in 1894; of the Chillicothe "Daily Advertiser" in 1898; and librarian of the Chillicothe public library in 1899. He wrote "At Odds With the Regent" (1900); “A Soldier of Virginia" (1901); "The Heritage" (1902); "The Holladay Case" (1903); "The Marathon Mystery (1904); "The Young Section Hand" (1905); "Affairs of State" (1906); "That Affair at Elizabeth" (1907); "The Quest for the Rose of Sharon" (1909); "The Path of Honor" (1910); "The Spell of Holland" (1911); "The Young Apprentice" (1912); "The Gloved Hand" (1913); "The Charm of Ireland" (1914); "Little Comrade" (1915); "A King King in Bab Babylon" (1917). He also edited and compiled several books, among which should be mentioned "Poems of American History" (1908); "A Child's Guide to American Biography" (1909); "Home Book of Verse" (1912); "Home Book of Verse for Young Folks" (1915); and "European Directory, Library War Service, A.L.A." (1918-19).
Stevenson (JOSEPH) ROSS
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
(JOSEPH) ROSS, an American theologian, born at Ligonier, Pa., in 1866. He graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1886 and from McCormick Theological Seminary in 1889. After taking post-graduate studies in Berlin, he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1890, and served as pastor for several years in Sedalia, Mo. From 1894 to 1897 he was adjutant professor of ecclesiastical history at McCormick Theological Seminary, and full professor from 1897 to 1902. In the latter year he became pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church, New York City, serving until 1909. From that year till 1914 he was pastor of the Brown Memorial Church, in Baltimore. In 1914 he was elected president of the Princeton Theological Seminary. During the World War he was a member of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A., and of the War Work Council. He served in France with the Y. M. C. A. and with the Army Educational Commission in 1918-19.
Stevenson ROBERT, a Scotch engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, a Scotch engineer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, June 8, 1772. His father died during his infancy; and his mother having (1786) married Thomas Smith, the first engineer of the Lighthouse Board, young Stevenson was led to the study of engineering. In 1796 he succeeded his stepfather as engineer and inspector of lighthouses; and during his 47 years' tenure of that office he planned and constructed 23 lighthouses round the Scotch coasts, employing the catoptric system of illumination, and his valuable invention of "intermittent" and "flashing" lights. The most remarkable of these erections was that on the Bell Rock. Stevenson was also in great request as a consulting engineer in the matter of roads, bridges, harbors, canals, and railways. He wrote four volumes of professional printed reports, a large work on the Bell Rock lighthouse, some articles in the "Encyclopædia Britannica" and in the "Edinburgh Encyclopædia." He died in Edinburgh July 12, 1850.
Stevenson ADLAI EWING, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ADLAI EWING, an American statesman; born in Christian co., Ky., Oct. 23, 1835; early took an active part in politics as a Democrat, and in 1875-1877 and 1879-1881 represented Illinois in the National House of Representatives. In 1885 was appointed first assistant postmaster-general, and after the renomination of Grover Cleveland in 1892 was chosen the candidate for the vice-presidency. The Democratic candidates were elected, and after the expiration of his term he was appointed a member of the American commission to visit Europe and endeavor to secure the adoption of international bimetallism. In 1908 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of Illinois. He died in 1914.
Stevenson EDWARD IRENÆUS (PRIME)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD IRENÆUS (PRIME), an American author and editor, born in 1868. He was admitted to the bar, but never practiced, and was a member of the literary staff of "The Independent," "Harper's Weekly," and other magazines. He became specially well known as a musical, dramatic, and musical, literary critic, and traveled and lectured extensively. He has written many novels and short stories, as well as a large number of articles on literary, musical, and historical topics.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the Stevensons gathered here, one has grown while the rest have receded. Collier's in 1921 listed Robert Louis Stevenson's books to the unfinished Weir of Hermiston without comment on his standing; through much of the twentieth century he was demoted to a writer of boys' adventures, and only since the 1980s and 1990s has criticism restored him to the front rank, with Weir often called his finest work and Jekyll and Hyde among the most filmed stories ever written. Vailima, the Samoan estate the entry calls Five Streams, survived plantation and colonial use and is now the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, with his grave above it on Mount Vaea in a Samoa independent since 1962. Sara Yorke Stevenson, author of Maximilian in Mexico and the first woman given an honorary degree by the University of Pennsylvania, is remembered now mainly by historians of women in archaeology and of the Penn Museum; Edward Luther Stevenson's facsimile studies of portolan charts and early globes are still consulted by map historians, while Burton Egbert Stevenson's novels are forgotten and his anthology work, the Home Book of Verse, outlasted them all.
Written for this edition, 2026.