Thurston
Thurston names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Thurston ROBERT HENRY, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT HENRY, an American educator; born in Providence, R. I., Oct. 25, 1839; was graduated at Brown University in 1859; worked in his father's shops in 1859-1861; was an assistants engineer in the navy in 1861- 1865; assistant professor of natural philosophy at the United States Naval Academy Academy in 1865-1871; professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in 1875-1885; and in 1885 was made director of Sibley College at Cornell University. He was also president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; vice-president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; United States commissioner to the Vienna Exposition in 1873; a member of numerous United States and State commissions; and the inventor of several testing machines, engine governors and other devices. His publications include "Friction and Lubrication," "Materials of Engineering," "History of the Steam Engine," "Manual of the Steam Boiler," about 300 mono- in 1909, after which he remained in graphs. He died Oct. 25, 1903.
Thurston E. TEMPLE, an English novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
E. TEMPLE, an English novelist; born in 1879. He published two books of poems in 1895, and wrote "The Apple of Eden" in 1897, ultimately published in re-written form in 1905. He had a first four-act play, "Red and White Earth," produced in 1902, and dramatized "John Chilcote, M. P.," by his first wife, K. C. Thurston, in 1905. His works include: "Traffic"; "The Evolution of Katherine"; Katherine"; rine"; "The Realist"; "Sally Bishop"; "Mirage"; "The City of Beautiful Nonsense"; "The Greatest Wish in the World"; "The Patchwork Papers"; "Tares"; "Driven"; "The Cost."
Thurston KATHERINE CECIL, a British novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KATHERINE CECIL, a British novelist; born in Cork, Ireland, in 1864. In 1901 she was married to E. Temple Thurston, an English novelist, from whom she is separated. Her first book was "The Circle," published in 1903, but her name was established mainly by her second novel, "John Chilcote, M. P.," which achieved great popularity, and was republished in the United States under the name of "The Masquerader." Her other works include: "The Gambler"; "Mystics"; "The Fly on the Wheel"; and "Max."
Thurston JOHN MELLEN, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN MELLEN, an American lawyer; born in Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 21, 1847; was admitted to the bar in 1869; 1869; was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions in 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; was United States senator from Nebraska in 1895-1901, and in 1897 rose to special prominence because of his speeches in the Senate advocating prompt intervention on behalf of Cuba. He was also a United States commissioner at the St. Louis Exposition in 1901. He died in 1916.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 that Katherine Cecil Thurston "is separated" from her husband, in the present tense — in fact she had died in Cork in 1911, and her once-hugely-popular "John Chilcote, M.P." (published in America as "The Masquerader") has passed out of print and out of the canon, surviving mainly through silent- and early sound-era film versions. E. Temple Thurston, then only in his early forties and still writing, went on to his greatest success with the play "The Wandering Jew," filmed in the 1920s, and died in 1933; he too is now almost wholly forgotten. Of the four, Robert Henry Thurston has worn best: the first president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and builder of Cornell's Sibley College, he is commemorated there by Thurston Hall and Thurston Avenue, and his "Materials of Engineering" and "History of the Steam Engine" are still cited by historians of technology. John Mellen Thurston's Senate speeches urging intervention in Cuba, which Collier's credits with "special prominence," are now read as part of the agitation that produced the war of 1898.
Written for this edition, 2026.