Wadsworth
Wadsworth names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Wadsworth JAMES WOLCOTT, JR., a United States Senator from New York
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES WOLCOTT, JR., a United States Senator from New York. He was born at Geneseo, N. Y in 1877, and graduated from Yale in 1898. He engaged in stock raising and general farming and conducted a large ranch in Texas. From 1911 to 1913 he took an active part in politics and was a member of the New York Assembly from 1905 to 1910 acting as speaker from 1906 to 1910. He was elected United States Senator from New York in 1914, and was re-elected in 1920 by a majority of over 400,000. During his term in the Senate, he was chairman of the Military Committee, and had much to do with the passage of the Military Organization Bill in 1920.
Wadsworth ELIOT, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIOT, an American public official, born in Boston, in 1876. He graduated from Harvard in 1898. He was a member of the firm of Stone & Webster, electrical engineers, from 1907 to 1916. In the latter year he resigned to become vice-president of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, and served in this capacity until 1919. He directed the work of the Red Cross in the United States and in France during the World War, and received decorations for his services from several foreign ign governments, as well as the Distinguished Service Medal of the United States Government.
Wadsworth JAMES SAMUEL, an er: born in American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES SAMUEL, an er: born in American military officer; 30, '1807; was Geneseo, N. Y., Oct. 30, educated at Harvard and Yale; studied law with Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He enlisted as a volunteer in the Union army early in 1861; was appointed a Brigadier- General in August; and t; and became military governor of the District of Columbia in March, 1862. He was engaged in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and and the Wilderness as the commander of a division, and was killed in the last named battle, May 6, 1864.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's caught James W. Wadsworth Jr. in 1921 at his peak, freshly re-elected to the Senate "by a majority of over 400,000" — but he lost that seat in 1926, largely over his opposition to Prohibition, and returned to Washington in the House from 1933 to 1951, where he co-sponsored the Burke–Wadsworth Act of 1940 creating the first peacetime draft in American history; he died in 1952. Eliot Wadsworth, described here only through his Red Cross war work, went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1925, and died in 1959. The sketch of James Samuel Wadsworth, the grandfather killed in the Wilderness in 1864, still stands as written, though modern accounts stress that he was a wealthy Genesee Valley landowner who served without pay and ran for governor of New York in 1862 while still in uniform.
Written for this edition, 2026.