Wade
Wade names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Wade BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, an American statesman; born in Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800. About 1821 he removed to Ohio, where he was employed as a school teacher for several years. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1827. In 1837 and 1841 he was elected State Senator; in 1847 was chosen presiding judge of the 3d Judicial District of Ohio; and in 1851, 1857, and 1863 was elected United States Senator. He was an advocate of the Homestead bill, voted for the repeal of the Fugitive-Slave Law, and opposed the Nebraska-Kansas bill of 1854. During the Civil War he was prominent in public affairs. In the session of 1861- 1862 he was appointed chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. He also served as president of the Senate and acting Vice-President of the United States. At the Republican National Convention, in Chicago, May 21, 1868, he received more votes on the first four ballots for the nomination for Vice- President than any other candidate; but failed to obtain the nomination. Excepting to serve as a commissioner to Santo Domingo, he took no prominent part in public affairs after 1869. He died in Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878.
Wade SIR THOMAS FRANCIS, an English dipomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR THOMAS FRANCIS, an English dipomatist; born in 1818; entered the army in 1838, and served in China and other parts of the East. He was appointed interpreter to the garrison at Hong Kong (1843), assistant Chinese secretary (1847), vice-consul at Shanghai (1852), and Chinese secretary at Hong Kong (1855). His intimate knowledge of the Chinese character and language led to his being attached to Lord Elgin's mission to China (1857- 1859), and as Chinese secretary he accompanied his lordship to Peking on his special mission (1860). In 1862 he became Chinese secretary and translator to the British legation legation in China; acted as chargé d'affaires at Peking (1864-1865 and 1869-1871), and in the last of these years was appointed envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, and chief superintendent of British trade in China. In November, 1875, he was made a K. C. B. for his success in diplomacy and in furthering the interests of British commerce. He was the author of "Tziü-Erk Chi" (1867), a progressive manual of the Chinese 'tongue. He died at Cam-. bridge, July 31, 1895.
Wade JAMES F., an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES F., an American military officer; born in Ohio, April 14, 1843; entered the Union army as 1st lieutenant in the cavalry in 1861; served with distinction throughout the Civil brevetted colonel and War; was Brigadier-General of volunteers in 1865; commissioned major of the 9th Cavalry, U. S. A., in 1866 1866 ; promoted colonel in 1891, and Brigadier-General in 1897; and in May, 1898, was appointed a Major- General of volunteers. After the war with Spain, in which he took an active part, he was placed at the head of the American Cuban Evacuation Commission; in January, 1899, became military governor of Cuba. He was made majorgeneral in 1903; served in the Philippines, 1901-1904; from 1904 to 1907 commanded the Atlantic Division. He was retired in the latter year.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, gives Benjamin F. Wade's near-miss at the 1868 vice-presidential nomination but passes over the fact that as president pro tempore of the Senate he stood to become President of the United States had Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial gone one vote the other way in May 1868 — the point for which he is now best remembered. Sir Thomas Francis Wade's "progressive manual of the Chinese tongue" of 1867 proved far more durable than the entry suggests: revised by Herbert Giles, his system of romanization became Wade-Giles, the standard way of spelling Chinese in English for most of the twentieth century, until the People's Republic promoted Hanyu Pinyin (adopted 1958, taken up internationally from the late 1970s) and "Peking" gave way to "Beijing". Wade also left his Chinese books to Cambridge, where he became the university's first professor of Chinese. James F. Wade, described here as merely "retired", died in the same year the volume appeared.
Written for this edition, 2026.