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Stockbridge (FRANK PARKER an American)

FRANK PARKER, an American author and journalist, born at Gardiner, Maine, in 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and at the George Washington University, but learned the printer's trade in 1894 and became reporter and editorial writer on the Buffalo "Express." He was the founder and editor of the "American Home Magazine" and later served in various capacities on the "New York American," "Globe," "Herald," "Mail," and the Cincinnati "Times- Star." He was prominently identified with the publicity campaign of President Wilson in 1911 and at various times was editor of the "Town Development Magazine," "Popular Mechanics," and "Old Colony Magazine." He was a member of the A. L. A. and of the Author's League of America, and besides frequently contributing to magazines wrote "Yankee Ingenuity in the War" (1919); and (with M. R. Trabue) "Measure Your Mind" (1920).