Stoddard
Stoddard names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stoddard WILLIAM OSBORN, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM OSBORN, an American author; born in Homer, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1835; was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1857, and after serving for a short time in the Civil War was made secretary to President Lincoln, which office he held till 1864 when he became United States marshal of Arkansas. Subsequently he engaged in business and journalism in New York City, where he also held several public offices under the municipal government. He was the author of numerous stories, sketches and poems, including "Life of Abraham Lincoln"; "Chuck Purdy"; "The Sword-Makers' Son"; "Ulric the Jarl"; "The Boy Lincoln" (1905); "Two Cadets With Washington" (1906); "In the Open" (1908); "Dab Kinzer" (1909); "The Captain of the Cat's Paw" (1914), etc.
Stoddard RICHARD HENRY, an American poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD HENRY, an American poet; born in Hingham, Mass., July 2, 1825; attended schools in New York, and then worked in an iron foun- 1.1 RICHARD HENRY STODDARD dry for some years, meanwhile reading widely, especially in poetry. In 1849 he produced a small volume of poems only to suppress it afterward; but 1852 saw the birth of a sturdier collection. From 1853 to 1870 he served in the New York custom house, in 1870-1873 was clerk to
Stoddard ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW), an American novelist and poet; born in Mattapoisett, Mass., May 6, 1823. She was the wife of Richard H. Stoddard, and the author of three distinguished novels, "The Morgesons" (1862); "Two Men" (1865); "Temple House," illustrative of English character and scenery (1867); and "Lolly Dink's Doings," a story for young readers (1874); "Poems." She died Aug. 1, 1902.
Stoddard CHARLES WARREN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES WARREN, General McClellan and for a year city and writing for the publishers. His poems include "Songs in Summer" (1857); "The King's Bell" (1862); "The Book of the East" (1867); "Lion's Cub" (1891; "Under the Evening Lamp," etc.; he wrote also "Life of Humboldt"; "Abraham Lincoln"; "Life of Washington Irving." He died in New York, May 12, 1903.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote these in 1921, the ranking was clear: Richard Henry Stoddard was the eminent poet, the "dean of American letters," and his wife Elizabeth was a footnote to him "the wife of Richard H. Stoddard." That has reversed. Richard's "Songs in Summer" and "The King's Bell" are read today almost only by specialists, while Elizabeth's "The Morgesons" (1862) was recovered by feminist scholars from the 1970s onward, reprinted, and is now taught as an important and strikingly modern New England novel. Charles Warren Stoddard, thinly served here, is likewise read again, chiefly for the South Sea sketches and as an early figure in American gay literary history; and William O. Stoddard's Lincoln reminiscences remain a working source, though he was one of several assistant secretaries rather than the president's secretary.
Written for this edition, 2026.