Walsh
Walsh names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Walsh ROBERT, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an American author; born in Baltimore, Md., in 1784. In 1837 he removed to Paris, where he was consul in 1845-1851. He wrote for "Dennie's Portfolio," and edited the "American Review of History and Politics," the first American quarterly (22 vols. 1827-1837); most of the articles were from his pen. Others of his pub- Lications are: "Correspondence Respecting Russia Between R. G. Harper and Robert Walsh, Jr." (1813); "An Essay on the Future State of Europe" (1813); biographical prefaces to an edition of the English poets in 50 small volumes; "An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America" (1819). He conducted the "American Register" (1817-1818), the "National Gazette" (1821-1837), and the "Museum of Foreign Literature and Science" (vol. i. 1822); and edited "Didactics: Social, Literary, and Political," a collection of aphorisms (2 vols. 1836). He died in Paris, Feb. 7, 1859.
Walsh DAVID IGNATIUS, an American lawyer and United States Senator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DAVID IGNATIUS, an American lawyer and United States Senator, born at Leominster, Mass., in 1872. He was educated at Holy Cross College and at the Boston University Law School, and received honorary degrees from various Catholic colleges and universities. In 1897 he was admitted to the bar; from 1898 to 1900 he was moderator of the town meetings in Clinton, Mass.; from 1900 to 1901 a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives; in 1913 lieutenant-governor and in 1914-1915 governor of Massachusetts. In 1917 he was a member at large of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and in 1918 he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term 1919 to 1925.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, David Ignatius Walsh was a freshman senator serving his first term, 1919 to 1925; he went on to lose that seat in 1924, win it back in 1926, and hold it until 1947, becoming the long-serving chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and one of the loudest isolationist voices against American entry into the Second World War. He is remembered today chiefly as the first Irish Catholic governor and senator from Massachusetts, and he died in Boston in 1947, the year after Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. unseated him. The notice of Robert Walsh, dead since 1859, needs no revision beyond a bibliographic tidy: his American Review of History and Politics (1811-12) was the pioneering American quarterly, while the 22-volume run of 1827-37 that Collier's attaches to it was in fact his American Quarterly Review.
Written for this edition, 2026.