Yates
Yates names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Yates EDMUND HODGSON, an English journalist and novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDMUND HODGSON, an English journalist and novelist; born in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3, 1831; the son of the actor Frederick Henry Yates (1797-1842), who from 1825 was manager of the Adelphi Theater. He was educated at Highgate and Düsseldorf, and from 1847 till 1872 had a position in the postoffice, being for 10 years chief of the missing lette letter department. He lectured in the United States in 1872- 1873; was special correspondent at , St. Petersburg, etc., of the New Vienna Vienna York "Herald" in 1873-1875; and London correspondent of the New York "Tribune" for a number of years. He wrote the following novels: "For Better, for Worse" (1863); "Broken to Harness" (1864); "Running the Gauntlet" (1865); "Kissing the Rod" (1886); "The Black Sheep" (1867); "Wrecked in Port" (1869); "Castaway" (1872); "A Waiting, etc., Race" (1872); and "Recollections and Experiences" (1885). He was editor of "Temple Bar," "Tinsley's" and other periodicals, and in 1874 founded, with Grenville Murray, a very successful "society" weekly, "The World," which, for a libel on Lord Lonsdale, involved him in 1884 to two months' imprisonment. He died May 20, 1894.
Yates RICHARD, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD, an American lawyer; born in Warsaw, Jan. 1818; was graduated at Illinois College, Jacksonville, in 1838; practiced law number of years; was elected to the legislature in 1842; and sent to Congress in 1850. In 1860 he was elected governor of Illinois. He was strongly opposed to slavery, and an ardent supporter of the government during the Civil War, taking an active part in the organization regiments. He was United of volunteer States Senator in 1865-1871, and afterward United States railroad commission- He died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27, er. 1873.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were long dead when Collier's compiled these notes in 1921, and the facts of their lives have not moved. The chief shift is in emphasis: Edmund Yates is now remembered less for novels like "Broken to Harness" than for the 1858 Garrick Club affair, in which his printed sketch of Thackeray drew Dickens to his defence and split the two great novelists for years, and for making "The World" a template for modern gossip journalism. Collier's also gives Richard Yates's birthplace only as "Warsaw" — it was Warsaw, Kentucky — and passes over the fact that his son and namesake was himself governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905. One small slip stands correcting: "Kissing the Rod" appeared in 1866, not 1886.
Written for this edition, 2026.