528 Ohio Arch. and Hist.
Society Publications
FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER
Frank George Carpenter, well known
correspondent,
traveler and author, was born at
Mansfield, Ohio, May
8, 1855. He was the son of George F.
and Jennette L.
Carpenter. He was graduated from the
University of
Wooster, Ohio, in 1877 with the degree
of A. B. Later
he received the degrees of A. M. and
Litt. D. He mar-
ried Joanna D. Condict of Mansfield,
Ohio, January 10,
1883.
Mr. Carpenter began newspaper work as
legislative
correspondent of the Cleveland Leader
at Columbus,
Ohio, in 1879. He became Washington
correspondent
of the same paper in 1882;
correspondent of the Amer-
ican Press Association in 1884; of the
New York World
in 1887. He wrote syndicate articles
for newspapers
in every section of the United
States. His travels
reached practically every section of
the old and
the new world. His descriptive articles
attained a high
degree of popularity and they always
had a substantial
foundation of fact as a result of his
keen observation
and extensive research.
The Boston Globe, one of a
number of large daily
newspapers for which he was long a
correspondent, in
the course of an extended article makes
the following
observations in regard to the man and
his work:
He visited every nation. He has written
millions and millions
of descriptive words for millions and
millions of avid readers. He
has lived perhaps the best known
syndicate writer of his time. A
part of the vitality has gone out of the
Sunday papers now that
Frank Carpenter has gone. He always
wrote fascinatingly, always
in a language the common man and woman
could understand,
always of subjects that even children
are interested in, but always
in a manner and on a theme which added
to the information of
the best educated and the most widely traveled.