Sullivan
Sullivan names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sullivan JOHN, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American military officer; born in Berwick, Me., Feb. 17, 1740; studied law and obtained a lucrative practice in Durham, N. H. He was commissioned a major of militia in 1772; represented New Hampshire at the Continental Congress held in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1774; was appointed a brigadier-general of the American merican Army 1775; and given command of the left in 1775 wing of the forces then laying siege to Boston. In June, 1776, he was placed in command of the army on the Canadian boundary. After an unsuccessful engagement with the British at THREE RIVERS (q. v.) he retreated to New York, and for a time was chief in command on Long Island; subsequently was promoted major-general. During Washington's campaign, which resulted in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton, Sullivan had command of the right wing of the army. He also participated in the battle of Princeton, and later descended rapidly on Staten Island and took 100 prisoners. He was at the battles of the Brandywine and Germantown, and during the latter
Sullivan JOHN action defeated the British left
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN action defeated the British left. On Aug. 29, 1778, he attacked the British at Butt's Hill, near Newport, R. I., and after a 12-hours' severe battle, in which about 6,000 men fought on each side, the Americans drove the British from the field at the point of the bayonet. Lafayette pronounced this engagement the best contested one of the whole war. In 1779 Sullivan led 4,000 troops into New York State to put a stop to Indian outrages. During the campaign he drove thousands of Indians out of the State and destroyed their crops and villages. He resigned from the army in 1780 owing to ill health, and was a second time a delegate to the Continental Congress. He later resumed the practice of law in New Hampshire; and was United States judge of that State from 1789 till his death, in Durham, N. H., Jan. 23, 1795.
Sullivan SIR ARTHUR SEY- MOUR, an English composer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR ARTHUR SEY- MOUR, an English composer; born in London, England, May 13, 1842; became a member of the boy choir in the Chapel Royal at St. James's, and at the age of 13 published his first composition. In the following year he won the Mendelssohn scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, and in 1858, while at Leipsic, he composed his "Feast of Roses" and the music to Shakespeare's "Tempest." Subsequently he produced numerous songs, operas, oratorios, etc. He was knighted in 1883 and made chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France in the same year. He died in London, Nov. 22, 1900.
Sullivan MARK, an American editor and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARK, an American editor and writer; born at Avondale, Pa., in 1874. He was educated at the Normal School, West Chester, Pa., and at Harvard University. From 1893 to 1900 he was part owner of the "Daily Republican," Phenixville, Pa.; from 1903 to 1904 writer on the Boston "Transcript"; from 1904 to 1906 a member of the New York City bar, and from 1906 to 1917 a member of the editorial staff of "Collier's Weekly," serving as editor from 1912 to 1917. After this he became Washington correspondent of the New York "Evening Post."
Sullivan THOMAS RUSSELL, an American fiction writer and dramatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS RUSSELL, an American fiction writer and dramatist; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 21, 1849. His novels include "Tom Sylvester," "Roses of Shadow, hadow," "Day and Night Stories," "Ars et Vita" (1893); "Boston, Old and New" (1912), and "Hand of Petrarch" (1913). His plays include "The Catspaw" (1881), "Merely Players" (1886), dramatization of Stevenson's "Dr. a Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Nero," a tragedy. He was joint author with W. W. Chamberlin of "Hearts Are Trumps" produced 1878, and "Midsummer Madness," produced 1880. He died in 1916.
Sullivan JOHN tles over the Roman forces in person
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN tles over the Roman forces in person, and defeated a Samnite army under Telesinus. He entered the city victorious in 82, and immediately put to death between 6,000 and 7,000 prisoners of war in the circus. He caused himself to be named dictator for an indefinite period (81 B. c.). In 79 B. c. he laid down his dictatorship, and retiring to Puteoli died in 78 b. c. See ROME.
Sullivan BARRY, an English tragedian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BARRY, an English tragedian; born in Birmingham in 1824; first appeared at Cork in 1840; played at Edinburgh and elsewhere; and at the Haymarket in London as Hamlet in February, 1852. He visited the United States in 1857-1860, and Australia in 1861-1866. He died in Brighton, England, May 3, 1891.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled this page in 1921 it gave Sir Arthur Sullivan four lines for his songs and oratorios; today he is remembered almost entirely for the comic operas he wrote with W. S. Gilbert, from The Mikado to The Pirates of Penzance, which the entry does not name at all. General John Sullivan's 1779 march, described here as a campaign to stop Indian outrages, is now studied as the Sullivan Expedition, a deliberate destruction of some forty Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) towns and their food stores, and is commemorated by their descendants as a catastrophe. Two of the writers here have gone in opposite directions: Mark Sullivan, then a Washington correspondent, went on to the six-volume popular history Our Times and became one of the best-known newspaper columnists of the Roosevelt years, while Thomas Russell Sullivan survives only through his stage version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which fixed the transformation scene for later film-makers, and Barry Sullivan the tragedian has faded from the stage histories almost completely. Two later Sullivans the page could not know are now the most famous of all: John L. Sullivan the bare-knuckle heavyweight champion, and the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, whose phrase form follows function outlasted everything on this list; the sixth entry, headed John, is a printer's accident that has spilled the article on the Roman dictator Sulla into the Sullivans.
Written for this edition, 2026.