Stimson
Stimson names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stimson HENRY LEWIS, an American lawyer and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY LEWIS, an American lawyer and public official, born in New York City, in 1867. He graduated from Yale, in 1888, and from the Harvard Law School in the following year. In 1891 he was admitted to the bar, becoming a member of the firm of Root & Clarke, in 1893, and a member of the firm of Winthrop & Stimson, from 1901. From 1906 to 1909 he was United States attorney for the Southern District of Nev New York, and was a Republican candidate for governor of New York, in 1910. He was Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Taft, from May, 1911, to March, 1913. During the World War he served in the law department of the United States Reserves, and was lieutenant-colonel of the 305th Field Artillery from August, 1917, to August, 1918, when he was appointed colonel of the 31st Field Artillery. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, from December, 1917, to August, 1918.
Stimson FREDERIC JESUP, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FREDERIC JESUP, an American lawyer; born in Dedham, Mass., July 20, 1855; was graduated at Harvard University in 1876, and at Harvard Law School in 1878; was admitted to the New York and Boston bars; became assistant attorney-general of Massachusetts in 1884, and later was chosen general counsel to the United States Industrial Commission. He was the author of several law books, novels, essays, mostly under the pseudonym of "J. S. of Dale," including: "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge"; "First Harvests"; "King Noanett"; "Jethro Bacon of Sandwich"; "The American Constitution" (1906); "Popular Law Making" (1910); "The Light of Provence," a play in verse; "My Story," an imagined autobiography of Benedict Arnold (1917).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921, Henry L. Stimson was a former Secretary of War under Taft and a failed candidate for governor of New York; his career had barely begun. He went on to be Governor-General of the Philippines (1927-29), Secretary of State under Hoover (1929-33), where he gave his name to the Stimson Doctrine refusing recognition of Japan's conquest of Manchuria, and then Secretary of War again under Franklin Roosevelt and Truman from 1940 to 1945 - the Republican who administered America's war effort, oversaw the Manhattan Project, and chaired the committee that advised Truman on using the atomic bomb. He died in 1950, and is remembered today far more for those years than for anything in this entry. Frederic Jesup Stimson, whose novels under "J. S. of Dale" are now largely forgotten, was in fact serving as US ambassador to Argentina when this was printed, a post he held from 1914 to 1921; he died in 1943.
Written for this edition, 2026.