Ton
Ton names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Ton an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an American lawyer; born in Culpeper co., Va., June 9, 1809; removed to Indiana, and was admitted to the bar there in 1834. The same year he was elected to the legislature, serving two terms; was a presidential elector on the Harrison and Tyler ticket; and in 1841 was elected to Congress. In 1843 he began to practise law in Terre Haute, was reëlected to Congress in 1847; and during the Civil War had charge of a recruiting post near Terre Haute and was provost marshal of the district. In 1877 he became Secretary of the Navy, but retired in 1881 to become chairman of the American Committee of the Panama Canal Company. His publications include: "The Papacy and the Civil Power"; "The History of the Protective Tariff"; "Footprints of the Jesuits"; "Recollections of Sixteen Presidents, From Washington to Lincoln," etc. He died in Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 9, 1900. THOMPSON, ROBERT ELLIS, an American educator; born near Lurgan, Ireland, April 5, 1844; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1865 and ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1874. He was Professor of Latin and Mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania in 1868-1871, of Social Science there in 1871-1881, and of History and English in 1881-1892. He lectured on protective tariff at Harvard University in 1885, at Yale in 1886-1887, and on theology at the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1891. He was editor of the "Pennsylvania Monthly" in 1870-1881, and of the "American Weekly' in 1881- 1892; was on the staff of the "Sunday- School Times," and in 1894 was chosen president of the Central High School of Ph Philadelphia. His publications publications include "Social Science and National onal Economy"; "Protection to Home Industry"; "History of the Presbyterian Churches of America"; "De Civitate Dei," etc. THOMPSON, SLASON, an American journalist and playwright, born in Frederickton, N. B., 1849, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He entered journalism by becoming a member of the staff of the San Francisco Call, in 1876, then, two years later, came to New York and joined the New York Tribune. He was one of the founders of the Chicago Herald in 1881, and has held editorial positions with the Chicago Record and a number of other large dailies. He is the author of a biography of Eugene Field (1902), and has written some plays, among which are "M'liss" (1878) and "Sharps and Flats" (1900). THOMPSON, VANCE, an American author; born in Cincinnati, O., April 17, 1863; was graduated at Princeton University in 1883; studied at the University of Jena, Germany, and was a dramatic critic in New York City in 1890-1897. He wrote "Berwyn Kennedy"; "The City of Torches"; "A Flash of Honor"; "Writers of Young France"; "Killing the Mandarin"; "The Carnival of Destiny"; "The Night Watchman" (1914); "Ego Book"; "Eat and Grown Thin" (1914); "Drink and Be Sober" (1911); "Woman" man" (1917). THOMPSON, WILL L., an American song-writer; born in Beaver co., Pa., Nov. 7, 1847; was educated at the Boston Musical School and the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1870-1875 and later studied in Germany, where he was graduated at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music. His works include "Thompson's Class and - Concert"; "Thompson's Popular Anthems"; about 100 popular songs, such as "Gathering Shells on the Sea Shore"; "Drifting with the Tide"; "Come Where the Lilies Bloom"; and contributions to almost every hymnal and gospel song collection published in the United States. His "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling" has had a world-wide publication. He died Sept. 20, 1909. THOMPSON, WILLIAM BOYCE, an American banker; born in Virginia City, Mont., 1869, and finished his education at the School of Mines of Columbia University. He has been a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since its organization. He was a delegate to the Republican Convention in 1916; and was head of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia for four months during 1917, his reports of Russian conditions at that time attracting general public interest. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HALE, mayor of Chicago, III.; born in Boston, Mass., 1869. early infancy taken to Chicago by his parents, where he received a common school education. For five years he worked on various cattle ranches in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, and was then manager of a cattle ranch in Nebraska for three years. He then took up the management of his father's real estate interests and, later, of his own. In 1900 he was elected alderman from the Second Ward. In 1915 he was elected Mayor of the city for a term of four years, and again in 1919. Since 1916 he has been a member of the Republican National Committee. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEP- WORTH, an English classical scholar; born in York, England, March 27, 1810; studied at Trinity College, Cambridge; became Regius Professor of Greek in 1853; and in 1866 succeeded Whewell as master of his college. He projected a great edition of Plato, but accomplished only the "Phædrus" and "Gorgias." He died Oct. 1, 1886. THOMPSON, WILLIAM OXLEY, an American educator; born in Cambridge, O., Nov. 5, 1855; was graduated at Muskingum College in 1878, and at the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny City, Pa., in 1882. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in the latter year; held pastorates in Odebolt, Ia., in 1882-1885; and in Longmont, Col., in 1885-1891; was president of Miami University in Oxford, O., in 1891-1899; and chosen president on July 13, 1899, was of the Ohio State University. THOMPSON, WILLIAM HOWARD, United States Senator; born in Crawfordsville, Ind., 1871. As a small child he went to Kansas with his parents. In 1886 he graduated from the Seneca Normal School, then for two years studied law under his father, being admitted to the bar of Kansas in 1894. In 1906 he was elected judge of the 32d Judicial District. In 1913 he was elected to the United States Senate for the term 1913- 1919. In 1916 he was a delegate-at-large to the Democratic National Convention and was there a member of the platform committee. THOMPSON, WORDSWORTH, an American artist; born in Baltimore, Md., May 26, 1840; began the study of art in Paris in 1861, and in the following year became a pupil of Charles Gleyre. In 1868 he came to the United States; settled in New York City, and in 1873 sent to the National Academy a picture entitled "Desolation," which secured his election as academician in 1875. In 1878 he became a member of the Society of American Artists, sending sending to the first exhibition a picture entitled "The Road to the Sawmill." He was a constant exhibitor at the National Academy. His pictures are chiefly Oriental and American historical scenes. He died in Summit, N. J., Aug. 28, 1896.
Ton an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an American educator; born in Union, N. J., Dec. 22, 1848; was graduated at Oberlin College in 1875; had charge of city schools in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin for many years; Professor of Philosophy and Literature in Parks College for six years; held the same chair at Salt Lake College for three years; and was president of the Utah State Christian Endeavor Union in 1897-1898. He conducted extensive mining operations, and contributed to literary and educa tional magazines. TIBER (Italian, Tevere; Latin, Tiberis), the chief river of central Ítaly, and the most famous in the peninsula. It rises in a dell of the Tuscan Apennines (province Arezzo), about 11 miles N. of the village of Pieve Santo Stefano. Its course till it reaches Perugia is S. S. E.; thence, as far as Rome, it pursues, along an irregular zigzag line, a S. direction; but when it enters the plain of the Campagna it curves S. S. W.. and enters the Mediterranean by two branches, which inclose the Isola Sacra, or Sacred Isle. Of these the N., the Fiumicino, alone is navigable; the Fiumara is silted up with sand. The entire course of the river is about 260 miles-only 145 direct from source to sea. The most celebrated towns on or near its banks are Perugia, Orvieto, Rome, and Ostia; and its chief affluents are the Nera and the Velino and Teverone or Aniene (Anio) from the left, and the Paglia with the Chiana from the right. In its upper course it is rapid_and turbid, and of difficult navigation. It is navigable for boats of 50 tons to the confluence of the Nera, 100 miles from its mouth, and small steamers ascend to within 7 miles of that point. The Tiber is supplied mainly by turbid mountain torrents, whence its liability to sudden overflowing of its banks; even the oldest Roman myth, that of Romulus, being inseparably associated with an inundation. Its waters, too, are still discolored with yellow mud, as when Vergil described it. TIBERIAS. See GALILEE.
Ton tun, an old English measure of capacity
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
tun, an old English measure of capacity. The tun or ton was originally a large wine cask. According to English law and custom, each bulky commodity was measured by the space it occupied. Thus a ton of oak or ash timber was forty cubic feet; of flour, ten barrels; of potatoes, ten to thirty-six sacks; earth, twenty-three cubic feet; stone, sixteen cubic feet; salt, forty-two bushels; lime, forty bushels; while the long ton used in measuring coal and other coarse articles consists of twenty hundred-weight of 112 pounds each, or 2,240 pounds in all. The short ton in ordinary use equals 2,000 pounds. In other words, the ton, in its original meaning, is a measure of capacity. The word, like bushel, has been transferred to a given weight. See Tonnage
Ton a denomination of weight equivalent to 20 hundredweights
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a denomination of weight equivalent to 20 hundredweights, or 2,240 pounds. In the United States goods are sometimes weighed by the short ton, of 2,000 pounds, the hundredweight being reckoned at 100 pounds, but it is decided by Act of Congress that, unless otherwise specified , a ton weight is to be understood as 2,240 pounds avoirdupois. BB
The Encyclopedia of Founding (1892)
A weight, equal to 20 hundredweight (cwt.). The hundredweight in Britain is 112 pounds, making the ton 2240 pounds. The U. S. hundredweight is reckoned at 100 pounds, which gives a ton of 2000 pounds.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
This entry is an OCR fragment: the headword "Ton" is the tail of a run of "Thompson" biographies, and the first, unnamed sketch is of Richard W. Thompson, Rutherford Hayes's Secretary of the Navy. Two of the men Collier's described in the present tense in 1921 went on to define themselves afterwards: William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson won a third term as mayor of Chicago in 1927, presided over a city notorious for its ties to Al Capone, and remains the last Republican to hold that office; William Boyce Thompson, the Montana-born banker, endowed the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in 1924, which still operates today at Cornell. The Panama Canal company chairmanship that closed Richard Thompson's career belonged to the failed French venture; the canal was finished by the United States and opened in 1914.
Written for this edition, 2026.