Sumner
Sumner names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Sumner CHARLES, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES, an American statesman; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 6, 1811; was educated at Harvard University. In 1834 he was called to the bar, and shortly afterward became reporter of the United States Circuit Court. In 1836 he published three volumes of Judge Story's decisions, subsequently known as "Sumner's Reports," and edited a periodical called the "American Jurist." He visited Europe in 1837, and returned to Boston in 1840, where he resumed his CHARLES SUMNER legal practice. Between 1844 and 1846 he edited and published "Vesey's Reports" in 20 volumes. In 1851 he was elected to the Senate of the United States and distinguished himself by his strong antipathy to slavery. In May, May, 1856, after delivering a speech vigorously attacking the slaveholders, he was violently assaulted by Preston S. Brooks, member from South Carolina. His injuries compelled him to absent himself from public duties for nearly four years. He was a supporter of Lincoln and Hamlin, and in 1861 he became chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He was an enemy to the policy of President Johnson and opposed the home and foreign policy of President Grant. After the latter's re-election in 1872 Sumner seldom appeared in debate. He died in Washington, D. C., March 11, 1874.
Sumner EDWIN VOSE, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWIN VOSE, an American military officer; born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 30, 1797. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War; served with distinction in the Mexican War in 1846- 1847, especially at the battles of Cerro Gordo and Molino del Rey; was made major in 1846; governor of New Mexico in 1851-1853; in 1855 was made colonel and was one of the escort of Abraham Lincoln from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D. C., in February , 1861; in March, 1861, promoted Brigadier -General U. S. A. During the Civil War he commanded a corps at the battle of Fair Daks May 31-June 1, 1862; at Malvern Hill July 1, and at the battle of Antietam Sept. 17 of that year; he also commanded one of the three great divisions of Burnside's army at the battle of Fred ericksburg Dec. 13, 1862; was given command of the Department of the Missouri in 1863. He died in Syracuse, N. Y., March 21, 1863.
Sumner WALTER TAYLOR, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WALTER TAYLOR, an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, born at Manchester, N. H., in 1873. He was educated at Dartmouth College , and at the Western Theological Seminary, and received honorary degrees from these two universities, and from Northwestern University. He was made a deacon in 1903, and a priest in 1904. From 1903 to 1906 , while ser serving as pastor of St. George's Church, Chicago, he was secretary to the Bishop of Chicago; from 1906 to 1915 he was dean of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, and superintendent of the City Missions of the Episcopal Church, Chicago ; and in 1915 he was consecrated Bishop of Oregon. He also served as a member of the Chicago Board of Education (1909- 1915) and was a member or officer of many religious and charitable associations, commissions, congresses, institutions, etc. Until 1915 he was also chaplain of the 1st Illinois Cavalry, I. N. G.
Sumner WILLIAM GRAHAM, an American political economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM GRAHAM, an American political economist; born in Paterson, N. J., Oct. 30, 1840 ; was graduated at Yale in 1863; studied at Geneva , Göttingen, and Oxford; was tutor at Yale in 1866-1869; in 1867 took orders in the Protestant-Episcopal Church ; was assistant at Calvary Church, New York, and rector of Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, N. J.; appointed Professor of Political Economy and Social Science at Yale College in 1872. His writings include a translation of Lange's "Commentary on Second Kings" (1872); "History of American Currency" ( 1874) ; "Life of Andrew Jackson" (1882); "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other" (1883); "Problems in Political Economy" (1884); " Protectionism" (1885); "History of Banking in the United States" (1896); etc. He died April 12, 1910.
Sumner GEORGE WATSON, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE WATSON, an American naval officer, born at Constantine, Mich., in 1841. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academ in 1861, becoming a lieutenant in 1862, and rising through the various grades to the rank of rear-admiral in March, 1899. He saw extensive service in the Civil War. His other assignments included , besides the command of various ships of the United States Navy, service with the Hydrographic Office, the Bureau of Ordnance, the Naval War College and the Navy Yards at New York and Philadelphia. From 1902 to 1903, he was commander-inchief of the South Atlantic Squadron, retiring at the end of 1903, upon having reached the age limit.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The lives are all closed, and the facts Collier's set down in 1921 still stand — though the reputations have moved. Collier's says the 1856 caning by Preston Brooks "compelled him to absent himself from public duties for nearly four years"; since David Donald's Pulitzer-winning biography of 1960 historians have argued at length over how much of that long convalescence was physical injury and how much psychological collapse, and the assault is now taught as one of the flashpoints on the road to secession. The entry on William Graham Sumner lists his currency and banking histories but not "Folkways" (1906), the book that actually carried his name into the twentieth century, giving sociology the terms "ethnocentrism" and "in-group" and "out-group"; his laissez-faire phrase "the Forgotten Man" was turned inside out by Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 to mean its near-opposite. Of the two living men described, Walter Taylor Sumner remained Bishop of Oregon until his death in the 1930s, and the reader should note that Collier's "battle of Fair Daks" is a misprint for Fair Oaks.
Written for this edition, 2026.