Ward
Ward names 9 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ward MRS. HUMPHRY (MARY AUGUSTA ARNOLD)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. HUMPHRY (MARY AUGUSTA ARNOLD), an English novelist; born in Hobart Town, Tasmania, June 11, 1851; eldest daughter of Thomas Arnold, second son of the great Dr. Arnold of Rugby. In 1872 she married Thomas Humphry Ward (born in 1845), the editor of "The English Poets" (4 vols. 1880- 1881), "Men of the Reign" (1885), "Men of the Time" (12th ed. 1887), and "The MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Reign of Queen Victoria" (1887). She began early to contribute to "Macmillan's Magazine," and gave the fruits of her Spanish studies to Smith and Wace's "Dictionary of Christian Biography." A child's story, "Milly and Olly" (1881), "Miss Bretherton" (1884), a slight but promising novel, and the translation of Amiel's "Private Journal" (1885) prepared the way for the widely read spiritual romance of "Robert Elsmere" (1888). Its successor, "David Grieve" (1892), showed all its faults but hardly all its merits, and yet is said to have brought its author in the first two months no less than $90,000. "Marcella" appeared in 1894; a short story, "Bessie Costrell," in 1895; "Sir George Tressady," a sequel to "Marcella," in 1896; "Helbeck of Bannisdale" (1898); "Eleanor" (1900); "Lady Rose's Daughter" (1903); "The Case of Richard Meynell" (1911); "Eltham House" (1915); "England's Effort" (1916); "A Writer's Recollections" (1918). She died in 1920.
Ward JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an American sculptor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, an American sculptor; sculptor; born in Urbana, O., June 29, 1830. In 1850 he entered the studio of Henry K. Brown, where he remained six years. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he modeled his "Indian Hunter," "The Good Samari tan," Commodore M. C. Perry, with re-' liefs, "The Freedman," and many busts and small works. In 1869 he built a studio in Forty-ninth Street, New York, where he made the "Citizen Soldier," and statues of Shakespeare, General Reynolds, General Washington, General Israel Putnam, an equestrian statue of General Thomas, General Daniel Morgan and Lafayette. He built a larger studio in 1882, where he made the colossal statue of Washington for the New York subtreasury building, a colossal statue of President Garfield, "The Pilgrim," etc. He designed the crowning group of "Victory" in the arch for the Dewey reception in New York in 1899. He was vice-president, and for one term president of the National Academy of Design. He died May 1, 1910.
Ward ARTEMAS, an military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTEMAS, an military officer; born in Shrewsbury, Mass., in 1727; was graduated at Harvard College in 1748; en entered public life at an early age as a representative to the General Assembly; and afterward became a member of the Executive Council. He served with distinction in the Revolutionary War, and was in command of the besieging forces at Boston till the arrival of General Washington, after which he was stationed with the right wing on Roxbury Heights. In consequence of impaired health he resigned his commission of Major-General, in April, 1776, but at the request of Washington continued to serve till the end of May. He was elected chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Worcester county in 1776; was president of the Massachusetts Executive Council in 1777, and a member of the Legislature for 16 years; and served in Congress in 1791-1795. He died in Shrewsbury, Mass., Oct. 28, 1800.
Ward HENRY AUGUSTUS, an American naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY AUGUSTUS, an American naturalist; born in Rochester, N. Y., March 9, 1834; became assistant to Prof. Louis Agassiz at the Harvard Scientific School in 1854; studied in Paris and traveled through Europe and the Orient in 1855-1859; was Professor of Natural Sciences in Rochester University in 1860-1865; and manager of gold mines in Montana and South Carolina in 1866-1869. In 1870 he began to travel in various countries, making large and valuable cabinets of mineralogy and geology, which he distributed among the universities and colleges of the United States. He founded, at Rochester, N. Y., an establishment where these cabinets were prepared, taxidermy executed, and natural-science collections arranged; was acting naturalist on the United States expedition to Santo Domingo; and wrote "Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri," and "Description of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in the Royal Museums of Europe." He died July 4, 1906.
Ward SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, an English educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR ADOLPHUS WILLIAM, an English educator, literary historian, and biographer; born in London, Dec. 2, 1837; was educated at Cambridge. He was Professor of History and English Literature at Owens College, Manchester (1866); principal (1890-1897); Vice- Chancellor of Victoria University (1886- 1890, and 1894-1896); Ford Lecturer at Oxford (1898); Master Peterhouse College, Cambridge, from 1900. He contributed to the "Encyclopædia Britannica" and leading English reviews, and wrote: "The House of Austria in the Thirty Years' War" (1869); "Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth" (2 vols. 1875); "Lives" of Chaucer (1879) and Dickens (1882) in the "English Men of Letters" series; "Great Britain and Hanover" (Ford Lectures, 1899); translator of Curtius's "History of Greece" (5 vols. 1868-1873); and editor of "Pope's Poems" (Globe edition, 1869), and of Byron's Poems" (Chetham So- (1916-1917). American
Ward ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, an American novelist and poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS, an American novelist and poet; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 31, 1844. In 1888 she married Herbert D. Ward, with whom she sometimes collaborated. Among her books are: "The Gates Ajar" (1868), one of the most successful of American stories; "Men, Women, and Ghosts (1869); "The Silent ; "The Trotty tty Book" (1869); "The Story of Avis" (1877); "Old Maid's Paradise" (1879); "Beyond the Gates" (1883); "Dr. Zay" Zay" (1882); "The Gates Between" (1887); "The Master of the Magicians" (1890); and "Come Forth" (1890). Jointly with her husband she wrote: "Poetic Studies," verse (1885); "Songs of the Select World" (1885); and "The Struggle for Immortality" (1889), a volume of es- "The Story of Jesus Christ" says. (1897); "Walled In" (1907); She died in 1911.
Ward WILLIAM HAYES, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM HAYES, an American editor, clergyman, and Assyriologist; born in Abington, Mass., June 25, 1835; was graduated at Amherst (1856); and at Andover Theological Seminary (1859). He was a pastor of the Congregational Church and professor at Ripon College in 1860-1868; became editor of the "Independent" in 1870. In 1884 he went to Babylon in charge of an exploring expedition. He wrote much on Oriental archæology for the "Bibliotheca Sacra," and other journals, and prepared the report of the expedition of 1884, and published "Biography of Sidney Lanier" ier" (1885), "Notes on Oriental Antiquities"; "The Seal Cylinders of Western Asia" (1910); "What I Believe and Why" (1915). He died in 1916. toelfossi
Ward NATHANIEL, an English- American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
NATHANIEL, an English- American lawyer, clergyman, and author; born in Haverhill, England, about 1578. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634; lived in Ipswich (Agawam); returned to England in 1647. While a pastor in Massachusetts he wrote the "Body of Liberties," adopted December, 1641, the first code of laws established in New England. His other writings are: "The Simple Cobler of Agawam" (1647); "A Religious Retreat Sounded to a Religious Army" (1647); "A Sermon Before Parliament" (1647); and "Mecurius Anti- Mechanicus; or, The Simple Cobler's Boy, with his Lap-full of Caveats" (1648). He died in Shenfield, Essex, about October, 1653.
Ward ARTEMUS. See BROWNE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ARTEMUS. See BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 gave its longest Ward to Mrs. Humphry Ward, dead only the year before, and to the huge sales of Robert Elsmere and David Grieve; her novels are now little read, and she is remembered chiefly as the first president of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League, an irony her admiring obituary notice passes over. The Ward whose work the public still meets daily is the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward: his colossal Washington stands on the steps of the old Sub-Treasury, now Federal Hall in Wall Street, and his Indian Hunter and Shakespeare remain in Central Park. Artemas Ward, who held the lines at Boston until Washington arrived, keeps a modest place in Revolutionary histories, while Henry Augustus Ward's Rochester supply house outlived him as a fixture of American museum-building, the workshop where a generation of taxidermists and collectors learned the trade. Sir Adolphus William Ward has faded furthest as a name, though the multi-volume Cambridge literary and historical series he helped edit are still pulled off library shelves.
Written for this edition, 2026.