Wallace
Wallace names 9 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Wallace LEWIS (better known as LEW)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LEWIS (better known as LEW), an American military officer and author; born in Brookville, Ind., April 10, 1827; was lieutenant in the Mexican War in 1846-1847; took a distinguished part in the Civil War in which he served in the campaigns in West Virginia and Kentucky; commanded a division at the capture of Fort Donelson; led the attack in the second day's fight in the battle of Shiloh; took part in the subsequent advance on Cor- GENERAL LEW WALLACE inth; saved Cincinnati, O., from capture by Gen. E. Kirby Smith; and was president of the court appointed to investigate the conduct of General Buell. In 1864 he commanded the Middle Department and the 8th Army Corps, and in the battle of Monocacy (July 9, 1864), prevented the capture of Washington and Baltimore by General Early. He was a member of the commission which tried the assassins of President Lincoln, and in the same year presided over the court which tried Captain Wirz, the commandant of the Andersonville prison. In 1866 he was sent to Mexico on a secret diplomatic mission to President Juarez; was appointed governor of New Mexico in 1878; and was United States Minister to Turkey in 1881-1885. When not engaged in public service he practiced law and devoted himself to literature. His publications include: "The Fair God"; "Ben Hur, a Tale of the Christ"; "The Prince of India." He died at Crawfordsville, Feb. 15, 1905.
Wallace JOHN FINDLEY, an American civil engineer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN FINDLEY, an American civil engineer, born at Fall River, Mass., in 1852. He was educated at Monmouth (Ill.) College and at the University of Wooster, and received honorary degrees from Monmouth_College and from Armour Institute. From 1871 to 1876 he was assistant United States engineer on the upper Mississippi river, and in connection with the improvements of the Rock Island rapids. Beginning with 1878 and until 1904 he was connected in various capacities with several mid-Western railroads, the greater part of this time being spent in the service ice of the Illinois Central railroad, of which he was general manager from 1901 to 1904. In the latter year he became the first American chief engineer of the Panama Canal. In 1905 he was made an Isthmian Canal Commissioner and vice-president and general HUGH C. WALLACE manager of the Panama Railroad and Steamship Company. From 1906 to 1917 he was president and chairman of the board of directors of Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company. He also de- Figned and constructed the terminals of the World's Fair at Chicago, the new passenger terminals for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at Chicago, and acted at various times as adviser and consultant to large corporations. He was president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the American Railway Engineering Association, as well as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain.
Wallace WILLIAM VINCENT, a British musical composer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM VINCENT, a British musical composer; born of Scotch parents, in Waterford, Ireland, June 1, 1814. From his father, a band- Keystone View Company Enc. Vol. 10 - p. 276 Publishers' Photo Service MT. PELEE, THE VOLCANO IN MARTINIQUE WHICH DESTROYED THE CITY OF ST. PIERRE Photographed for Collier's Weekly A LAVA FLOW AND ACTIVE CRATERS ON THE VOLCANO OF KILAUEA, ISLAND OF HAWAII Keystone View Company THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE IN WARSAW, CAPITAL OF POLAND British and Colonial Press PORTAGE AVENUE, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA SOLDIERS WITH WIRE CUTTERS ADVANCING INTO THE BARBED-WIRE ENTAGLEMENTS IN FRONT OF THE HINDENBURG LINE GERMAN PRISONERS BRINGING IN AMERICAN WOUNDED master, he learned to play on military instruments, and also studied the violin, pianoforte, and guitar. He spent some years in Australia, and made an extensive concert tour in the Australian colonies, India, and the United States. In 1845 he went to London, and devoted himself to composition. His first opera, "Maritana," was produced at Drury Lane, 1845, and secured him at once a reputation. "Lurline" and the "Amber Witch" are his other chief operatic compositions. He wrote numerous airs for the pianoforte. He died in Haute Garonne, France, Oct. 12, 1865.
Wallace ALFRED RUSSELL, an English naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ALFRED RUSSELL, an English naturalist; born in Usk, Monmouthshire, England, Jan. 8, 1823; was educated at Hertford grammer school. He spent many years in traveling, especially in South America and the Asiatic Islands. His observation of animal life early led him on the track of natural selection, and before Darwin gave his famous work to the world he had published "Speculations on the Origin of Species." Wallace differed from Darwin on the subject of the intellectual, moral, spiritual nature of man, and claimed to be at once a Darwinian and an anti-materialist. He was president of the Land Nationalization Society and a member of various scientific bodies. The Royal Society of London awarded him the royal medal in 1868, and the Geographical Society of Paris the gold medal in 1870. He wrote: "Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro"; "The Malay Archipelago"; "Tropical Nature"; "Geographical Distribution of Animals"; "Natural Selection" (1870); "Miracles and Modern Spiritualism" (1874); "Australasia" (1879); "Island Life" ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE (1880); "Land Nationalization" (1882); "Bad Times" (1885); "Darwinism' (1889); "The Wonderful Century" (1898); and many scientific and popular papers. He died in 1913.
Wallace SIR WILLIAM, a Scotch patriot
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR WILLIAM, a Scotch patriot; born in Ayrshire, Scotland about 1270. Having slain the son, and several of the retainers of the English sheriff of Dundee, for an insult offered to him, Wallace fled to the woods, and was outlawed. Gathering together a number of followers he drove the English out of Aberdeen, Forfar, Brechin, and elsewhere, and in 1297 defeated the English army at the battle of Stirling bridge-thus liberating his country for a time. He was chosen one of the commanders-in-chief of the Scotch army, and afterward guardian of the kingdom, during the captivity of Baliol. He penetrated into England, and ravaged Durham with fire and sword. Edward I., then in Flanders, immediately hastened home, and marched against Wallace, who was defeated. He carried on a guerrilla warfare against the English during several years, was betrayed, and executed in London, Aug. 24, 1305.
Wallace HENRY CANTWELL, an American editor and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY CANTWELL, an American editor and public official, born in Rock Island, Ill., in 1866. After graduating from Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1892, he engaged in farming and in the breeding of pure-bred live stock. He was also professor of dairying at the Iowa State College, from 1893 to 1895. After having been connected with several farm papers, he became, in 1895, manager and assistant editor of "Wallace's Farmer," and from 1916 was editor of this paper. He was a member of the executive committee of the United States Live Stock Industrial Commission. During the World War he was a member of the National War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A., chairman of the Iowa War Work Council. He became Secretary of Agriculture in the cabinet of President Harding, assuming office on March 4, 1921.
Wallace SIR RICHARD, an English philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR RICHARD, an English philanthropist; born in London, England, July 26, 1818; removed to Paris; and became heir to the large fortune of the Marquis of Hertford, including a very valuable collection of paintings and other objects of art, to which he made large additions and which his widow bequeathed in 1897 to the nation. It is valued at $25,000,000 and is permanently on exhibition in Hertford House (the original of Gaunt House in "Vanity Fair"). Sir Richard was well known for his extensive benefactions, especially during the period of the Paris Commune, and these services were recognized in 1871 by his elevation to a baronetcy and his appointment as a commander of the Legion of Honor. In 1873 he was elected to Parliament. He died in Paris, July 20, 1890.
Wallace HUGH CAMPBELL, an American diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HUGH CAMPBELL, an American diplomat, born at Lexington, Mo., in 1863. He was educated in public and private schools of his native town, and under private tutors. He was a member of the Democratic National Committee in 1892, 1896, and 1916; a delegate-at-large from the State of Washington to the Democratic National conventions of 1896 and 1912; and took a prominent part in the national campaigns of 1892, 1912, and 1916. In February, 1919, President Wilson appointed him United States Ambassador to France.
Wallace SUSAN ARNOLD EL- STON, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SUSAN ARNOLD EL- STON, an American author; wife of General Lewis Wallace; born in Crawfordsville, Ind., Dec. 25, 1830; was married to General Wallace in 1852. Besides contributing to periodicals she wrote: "The Storied Sea" (1883); "Ginevra" (1886); "The Land of the Pueblos" (1888); "The Repose in Egypt" (1888); etc. She died in 1907.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled these nine Wallaces in 1921, the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (Collier's spells it Russell) got a middling notice that mentioned his spiritualism alongside his science; he is now the most celebrated name on the page, credited as independent co-discoverer of natural selection through the paper he sent Darwin from Ternate in 1858, and a bronze statue of him was unveiled at London's Natural History Museum in 2013, the centenary of his death. The zoogeographical boundary through the Malay Archipelago that he mapped is still taught as the Wallace Line. Lew Wallace, the Union general who held Early at the Monocacy in 1864, survives chiefly through Ben-Hur, filmed in 1925 and again in 1959, when it won eleven Academy Awards. Of the rest, John Findley Wallace's brief spell as first American chief engineer of the Panama Canal ended with his resignation in 1905, nine years before the canal opened, while William Vincent Wallace's opera Maritana, a hit at Drury Lane in 1845, has almost vanished from the stage, and the diplomat Hugh C. Wallace, pictured but not described in the surviving text, is now largely forgotten.
Written for this edition, 2026.