White
White names 9 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
White ANDREW DICKSON, an American diplomatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANDREW DICKSON, an American diplomatist; born in Homer, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1832. He was graduated at Yale in 1853; traveled in Europe; studied at Sorbonne and Collége de France, 1853-1854; attaché to legation of the United States, St. Petersburg, 1854- 1855; studied in the University of Berlin, 1855-1856; Professor of History and ANDREW DICKSON WHITE English Literature University of Michigan, 1857-1863; returned to Syracuse and elected State Senator, in which capacity (1863-1867) he introduced reports and bills codifying the schools laws, creating a new system of normal schools, establishing a new health board in the city of New York, and incorporating Cornell University at Ithaca; chosen first president of that university, 1866; visited Europe to purchase books and apparatus therefor, and make special study of European educational methods; has in addition to the presidency filled the chair of modern history; was appointed by President Grant commissioner to Santo Domingo to study and report on question of annexation, 1871; by the State of New York commissioner to Paris Exposition, 1878; by President Hayes minister to Berlin, 1879-1881; by President Harrison minister to St. Petersburg, and continued under President Cleveland, 1892-1894; appointed by President Cleveland member of the Venezuelan Commission, 1895-1896; ambassador to Berlin under President Mc- Kinley, 1897; president of the American International Peace delegation to the Intern the Congress at The Hague in 1899. Mr. White was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution and an officer of the Legion of Honor of France. His principal works are: "The Warfare of Science" (1876); "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom" (1897); "European Schools of History"; "The New Germany"; "The Work of Benjamin Hale" (1911). He died in 1918.
White WILLIAM ALLEN, an American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM ALLEN, an American journalist, born in Emporia, Kan., in 1868. He was educated at the University of Kansas. In 1895 he became proprietor and editor of the Emporia "Daily and Weekly Gazette." He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, vice-president of the American Short Ballot Association, and a trustee of the College of Emporia. A Republican in politics, he was one of the chief supporters of ex-president Roosevelt in the formation of the Progressive party, becoming a member of its National Committee and the chairman of its publicity committee. During the World War he went, in 1917, to France as an observer for the American Red Cross. In 1919 he was appointed an American delegate to the Russian Conference at Prinkipo. Besides contributing frequently to magazines and newspapers, he wrote "The Real Issue and Other Stories" (1896); "The Court of Boyville" (1899); "Stratagems and Spoils" (1901); "In Our Town" (1906); "A Certain Rich Man" (1909); "The Old Order Changeth" (1910); "God's Puppets" (1916); "In the Heart of a Fool" (1918); "The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me" (1918).
White STEWART EDWARD, an American an author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STEWART EDWARD, an American an author, born in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1873. He was educated at the University of Michigan and at the Law School of Columbia University. He was a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. During the World War he served as a major with the 144th F. A. Besides contributing to many of the most prominent magazines. he wrote "Westerners" (1901); "Claim Jumpers" (1901); "The Blazed Trail" (1902); "Conjuror's House" (1903); "The Forest" (1903); "The Magic Forest" (1903); "The Silent Places" (1904); "The Mountains" (1904); The "Blazed Trail Stories" (1904); "The Pass" (1906); "The Mystery" (with Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1907); "Arizona Nights" (1907); "Camp and Trail" (1907); "The Riverman" (1908); "The Rules of the Game" (1909); "The Cabin" (1910); "The Adventures of Bobby Orde" (1911); "The Land of Footprints" (1912); "African Camp Fires" (1913); "Gold" (1913); "The Rediscovered Country" (1915); "The Gray Dawn" (1915); "The Leopard Woman" (1916); "Simba" (1918); "The Forty- دو Niners" (1918).
White HENRY, an American diplomat and public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY, an American diplomat and public official, born in Baltimore, Md., in 1850. He was educated in private schools in the United States and France, and took post-graduate studies at Harvard and Johns Hopkins. He entered the diplomatic service and was secretary of the American Embassy at London, from 1884 to 1905. He acted many times as chargé. In 1887-1888 he represented the United States at the International Conference for the abolition of sugar bounties, and also took part in many other international conferences, including the Algeciras Conference respecting Moroccan affairs in 1906. In 1905 he was appointed American Ambassador to Italy, and in 1907 was appointed Ambassador to France, serving until 1909. In 1910 he was chairman of the American delegation to the Fourth Pan-American Conference. He was selected by President Wilson as the Republican representative on the United States delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919.
White RICHARD GRANT, an American Shakespearean scholar
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD GRANT, an American Shakespearean scholar; born Shakespearean in New York City, May 23, 1822. His journalistic work was in connection with the New York "Courier and Enquirer" (1851-1858), and "World" (1860-1861); and the London "Spectator" (1863-1867), for which he wrote "Yankee Letters." Among his published books are: "Biographical and Critical Handbook of Christian Art" (1853); "Shakespeare's Scholar" (1854); "National Hymns: A Lyrical and National Study for the Times" (1861); "Memoirs of the Life of William Shakespeare, with an Essay Toward the Expression of His Genius," etc. (1865); "Poetry of the Civil War" (1866); "Words and Their Uses" (1870); "England Without and Within" (1881); "The Riverside Shakespeare," with Biography, introductions and notes (1883, 3 vols.); an annotated edition of Shakespeare, (1857-1865, 12 vols.). He published one novel, "The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys" (1884). He died in New York City, April 8, 1885.
White EDWARD DOUGLAS, an American jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD DOUGLAS, an American jurist; born in the parish of Lafourche, La., Nov. 3, 1845; was educated at Mount St. Mary's College, Md., and at the Jesuit College in New Orleans. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate army. After the war he practiced law. He was State Senator of Louisiana in 1874; associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1878; and United States Senator in 1889-1894. While still in the Senate he was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and became Chief Justice on the death of Melville W. Fuller in 1910.
White HORACE, an American editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORACE, an American editor; born in Colebrook, N. H., Aug. 10, 1834. He settled in Chicago, was editor of the Chicago "Tribune" (1864- 1874); and subsequently became connected with the New York "Evening Post." He wrote many pamphlets and essays on political, social, and financial topics, the best known being: "The Silver Question"; "The Tariff Question"; "Coin's Financial Fool"; "Money and Banking Illustrated by American History"; "The Gold Standard"; "Life of Lyman Trumbull" (1913); and edited Bastiat's "Sophismes Économiques" (1876) and Cossa's "Scienza delle Finanze" (1889). He died in 1916.
White HENRY KIRKE, an English poet
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY KIRKE, an English poet, born in Nottingham, England, March 21, 1785; was the son of a butcher, and being of a delicate constitution he was put to the trade of stocking weaving. From his infancy he manifested great love of learning, and at the age of 14 produced some notable specimens of poetry. He published, in 1803, a poem called "Clifton Grove"; and after his death his "Remains, consisting of poems, letters, etc., were edited by Southey. He died in Cambridge, England, Oct. 19, 1806.
White GILBERT, an English naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GILBERT, an English naturalist; born in Selborne, England, July 18, 1720. He wrote: "The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton" (1789); and a posthumous work edited from his papers, "The Naturalist's Calendar, with Observations in Various Branches of Natural History" (1795). Many naturalists have published editions of his works with annotations. John Burroughs wrote an introduction to the edition of 1895. His "Letters" were published in 1876. He died in Selborne, June 20, 1793.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the men gathered here, two are still read. William Allen White, described in 1921 only as proprietor of the Emporia Gazette and a Progressive publicist, went on to win Pulitzer Prizes for a 1922 editorial and for his posthumous Autobiography (1946), and became the national voice of small-town Kansas until his death in 1944. Andrew Dickson White, listed as a diplomatist, is remembered less for his Berlin and St. Petersburg embassies than for founding Cornell and for his History of the Warfare of Science with Theology, still argued over by historians who now regard its conflict thesis as overdrawn. Henry White's career ended with the one appointment Collier's records last, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, where he was Wilson's lone Republican; Stewart Edward White, then a prolific outdoor novelist, faded from the shelves after his death in 1946 and is now read mainly by devotees of camp-craft and the Michigan lumber trade, while the Shakespearean editor Richard Grant White survives chiefly as a name in the history of American criticism, and as E. B. White's grandfather's generation of literary New Yorkers.
Written for this edition, 2026.