Usher
Usher names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Usher ROLAND GREEN, an American educator and historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROLAND GREEN, an American educator and historian, born at Lynn, Mass., in 1880. He was educated at Harvard, Oxford, Paris, and Cambridge Universities. His entire career as a teacher of history was spent at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., where he was successively instructor of history (1907-1910); assistant professor (1910-1912); associate professor (1912- 1914); and full professor since 1914. He was a member of various historical and educational societies and wrote: "Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth" (1905); "The Reconstruction of the English Church" (1910); "Pan-Germanism" (1913); "The Rise and Fall of the Hi High Commission" (1913); "The Rise of the American People" (1914); "Pan-Americanism" 1915); "The Challen (1916); "A Critical Study of the Historical Method of Samuel Rawson Gardiner" (1916); "The Winning of the War" (1918); "The Pilgrims and Their History" (1918); "The Story of the Great War" (1919).
Usher NATHANIEL REILLY, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NATHANIEL REILLY, an American naval officer, born in Vincennes, Ind., in 1855. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1875, was promoted ensign and gradually rose to the rank of rear admiral in 1911. During the Spanish- American War he commanded the "Ericsson." His other assignments included service with General Board, Navy Department (1903-1904); Bureau of Navigation (1904-1906); "St. Louis" (1906- 1908); Bureau of Navigation (1908- 1909); "Michigan" (1910-1911); ; president of the Naval Examining and Retiring Board (1911-1912); command of the 4th Division Atlantic Fleet (1912); 2d Division (1912-1913); 3d Division (1913); Norfolk Navy Yard (1913- 1914); and New York Navy Yard 1918). He was retired on account of age in April, 1919.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both Ushers were living men when Collier's compiled these notices in 1921, and both careers ran on well past the entry. Roland Greene Usher stayed at Washington University in St. Louis for the rest of his working life, dying in 1957; his once-celebrated "Pan-Germanism" (1913), which read the coming war into German ambitions and sold widely, is now consulted mainly as a specimen of pre-1914 alarm rather than as history, and his study of the Court of High Commission is the book that still gets cited. Rear Admiral Nathaniel Reilly Usher, retired for age in April 1919, died in 1931; the Navy later named a destroyer for him. The bare service lists in both notices remain accurate as far as they go "they simply stop in 1921.
Written for this edition, 2026.