Stockbridge
Stockbridge names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stockbridge HORACE EDWARD, an American agricultural chemist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORACE EDWARD, an American agricultural chemist, born at Hadley, Mass., in 1857. He was educated at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Boston University, and at the University of Göttingen. From 1884 to 1885 he was associate professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Agricultural College; from 1885 to 1889 professor of chemistry and geology at the Imperial College of Agriculture and Engineering, Japan; from 1887 to 1889 chief chemist of the Japanese Government ; from 1890 to 1894 president of the N. D. Agricultural College and director of the N. D. Experiment Station; from 1897 to 1906 professor of agriculture at the Florida Agricultural College and director of State agricultural institutions; and from 1906 on, editor of the " Southern Ruralist," Atlanta, Ga. He was a member of many domestic and foreign chemical , agricultural, educational and scientific societies, and from 1916 to 1917 president of the Farmers' National Congress . Besides writing reports and magazine articles on agricultural and scientific topics, he published "Rocks and Soils" (1888); and "Land Teaching" (1910 ).
Stockbridge FRANK PARKER, an American author and journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK PARKER, an American author and journalist, born at Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and at the George Washington University, but learned the printer's trade in 1894 and became reporter and editorial writer on the Buffalo "Express." He was the founder and editor of the "American Home Magazine" and later served in various capacities on the "New York American," "Globe," "Herald," "Mail," and the Cincinnati "Times- Star." He was prominently identified with the publicity campaign of President Wilson in 1911 and at various times was editor of the "Town Development Magazine," "Popular Mechanics," and "Old Colony Magazine." He was a member of the A. L. A. and of the Author's League of America, and besides frequently contributing to magazines wrote "Yankee Ingenuity in the War" (1919); and (with M. R. Trabue) "Measure Your Mind" (1920).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both entries are journalistic round-ups of men then still working, and as biography they stand; what has moved is the institutions behind them. The Massachusetts Agricultural College where Horace Stockbridge taught is now the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the North Dakota Agricultural College he headed is North Dakota State University, and the Florida Agricultural College became the University of Florida. Frank Parker Stockbridge's "Measure Your Mind" (1920), written with M. R. Trabue, rode the wave of enthusiasm for mental testing that followed the U.S. Army's wartime intelligence examinations — a field whose confident claims about measuring innate ability have since been argued over far more sharply than either book's title suggests. Neither man is much read today, and both died within two decades of Collier's writing.
Written for this edition, 2026.