Warren
Warren names 8 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Warren GOUVERNEUR KEM- BLE, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GOUVERNEUR KEM- BLE, an American military officer; born in Cold Spring, N. Y., Jan. 8, 1830; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1850, and was brevetted 2d was engaged in river surveys, and in exploring and making maps for railroad routes between the Mississippi river and the Pacific Ocean in 1850-1859; and was assistant Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy in 1859-1861. When the Civil War broke out he became lieutenant-colonel of the 5th New York Volunteers and colonel in August, 1861. He was promoted captain of United States Engineers, Sept. 9, 1861; promoted Brigadier-General of volunteers in September, 1862, for his gallantry at Gaines' Mills, and chief of topographical engineers in February, 1863. In March of the same year he was made chief of engineers in the Army of the Potomac. During the battle of Gettysburg, while on the staff of General Meade, he ordered the 140th New York regiment to seize Little Round Top. After a sharp hand-to-hand struggle this hill, which was the key to the whole Union position, was carried. He was promoted Major-General of volunteers in May, 1863, and in March, 1864, when the Army of the Potomac was reorganized he was placed in command of the 5th corps. He distinguished himself in the battles of Marye's Heights, Chancellorsville, Salem, the Wilderness, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Five Forks, etc. At the instance of General Sheridan, who accused General Warren to General Grant of criticizing the acts of his superior officers, he was relieved from the command of his corps, but was later vindicated by a court of inquiry. Shortly after this he was placed in command of the Department of the Mississippi. In June, 1864, he was promoted major of United States Engineers, which post he assumed in May, 1865, when he was mustered out of the volunteer service. He was brevetted Major-General U. S. A. in March, 1865, and promoted lieutenant-colonel in March, 1874. His publications include: "Explorations in the Dakota Country" (1855-1856); "Preliminary Reports of Explorations in the Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855- 1857" (1858); and "An Account of the 5th Army Corps at the Battle of Five Forks" (1866). He died in Newport, R. I., Aug. 8, 1882. A statue was erected to his memory on Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1888.
Warren JOSEPH, an American patriot
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOSEPH, an American patriot; born in Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1759, studied medicine, and settled in Boston, where he soon acquired an extensive practice. He warmly embraced the cause of the colonies in the lieutenant of Topographical Engineers; controversy with the British Government, and, in 1772, was made a member of the committee of correspondence formed for the purpose of communication with the several towns in Massachusetts. In 1774, he was elected a delegate to the Massachusetts congress, of which he was made president, and also chairman of the committee of public safety. On June 14, 1775, he received a commission as Major-General; and when a majority of the council of war determined to fortify Bunker Hill, he insisted on having a share in the action that would take place. As he was warned by Elbridge Gerry against the hazard of exposing his person: "I know that I may was the answer of Warren, "but where is the man who does not think it glorious and delightful to die for his country?" He was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His statue, by Henry Dexter, was unveiled on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1857.
Warren SAMUEL, a British novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SAMUEL, a British novelist; born in Denbighshire, Wales, May 23, 1807. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1837. He was made a Queen's Counsel (1851), was Recorder of Hull (1854-1874), represented Midhurst in the Conservative interest (1856-1859), and then he was appointed one of the two Masters of Lunacy. His "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician" (1832) had been contributed to "Blackwood's Magazine," as also was "Tern Thousand a Year" (1841), the amusing story of "Tittlebat Titmouse." By these he is chiefly remembered; but he published a dozen more works, including "Now and Then" (1847), "The Lily and the Bee" (1851), and several law books. He died in London, July 29, 1877.
Warren FRANCIS EMROY, a United States Senator from Wyoming
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS EMROY, a United States Senator from Wyoming. He was born in Hinsdale, Mass., in 1844, and received an academic education. He served in the Civil War, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry. Following the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts, until 1868, when he removed to Wyoming. He filled various offices in the Territorial Government, and was mayor of Cheyenne until 1885, when he resigned to be territorial governor. For three terms he was treasurer of Wyoming Territory. In 1890 he was elected first governor of the State of Wyoming. Following his election as United States Senator in the same year, he resigned. He was five times re-elected Senator.
Warren MERCY OTIS, an American patriot
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MERCY OTIS, an American patriot; born in Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 25, 1728. An ardent patriot, she corresponded with the leaders of the Revvolution, among them Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The "Correspondence of John Adams and Mercy Warren" was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the Royalists (1773-1775), which were included in her volume of "Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790). She published "A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political, and Moral Observations" (3 vols. 1805). She died in Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 19, 1814.
Warren WHITNEY, an American architect
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WHITNEY, an American architect. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, and began the practice of architecture in New York. He established the firm of Warren and Wetmore. He was awarded the silver medal at the Paris Exposition for excellence in During the World sculptural work. War he spent much time in France and Italy in relief work, and made a careful examination and report on the condition of the Rheims Cathedral. In 1921 he was given the commission of rebuilding the library of Louvain, which was burned by the Germans during the invasion of Belgium in 1914. a municipal and
Warren a city and county-seat of Trumbull co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Trumbull co., O.; on the Mahoning river, and on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and the Erie railroads; 55 miles S. E. of Cleveland. Here are graded schools, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city has machine shops, planing, flour, rolling, paint, orator and tube works, and steel, bath and saw mills, boiler, linseed oil, evaptub, electric lamp, an and other factories. Pop. (1910) 11,081; (1920), 27,050.
Warren a borough of Pennsylvania
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough of Pennsylvania, the county-seat of Warren co. It is at the junction of the Allegheny river and of the Conewango Creek, and is on the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads. Its industries include oil refining and the manufacture of furniture, iron and steel, chemicals, boilers, gas engines, etc. It has a State Hospital for the Insane, and two public libraries. Pop. (1910) 11,080; (1920) 14,272.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's assembled these Warrens in 1921 by rank and fame, and the ranking has since shifted. Mercy Otis Warren, given a few truncated lines here as a patriot who corresponded with the Adamses, is now the most studied name on the page: her 1805 three-volume history of the Revolution is read as a major early account and as the work of the first woman to write one, while Samuel Warren, whose Ten Thousand a Year Collier's called the book he is chiefly remembered by, has almost no readers left. Gouverneur Kemble Warren's disgrace at Five Forks is still argued over by Gettysburg and Appomattox historians, and the court of inquiry that cleared him reported only after his 1882 death, so his statue on Little Round Top, put up in 1888, remains the monument to a vindication he never saw. Francis E. Warren, described in 1921 simply as five times re-elected, stayed in the Senate until he died in 1929, was Pershing's father-in-law, and has an Air Force base outside Cheyenne named for him; Joseph Warren, killed at Bunker Hill in 1775, is the one entry that needs no revision.
Written for this edition, 2026.