Frank Brett Noyes
{{short description|American journalist}}
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| birth_place = Washington, D.C.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|12|1|1863|7|7}}
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| employer = Washington Evening Star
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| spouse = Janet Thurston Newbold
| children = Frances Newbold Noyes
Newbold Noyes Sr.
Ethel J. Noyes Lewis
| parents = Crosby Stuart Noyes
Elizabeth S. Williams
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Frank Brett Noyes (July 7, 1863 - December 1, 1948) was president of the Washington Evening Star, a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and a founder of the Associated Press.{{cite news |title=A. P. |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882644,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026125250/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882644,00.html?iid=chix-sphere |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 26, 2012|work=Time |date=May 4, 1936 |access-date=December 13, 2008 }} He was a son of the Star{{'s}} publisher Crosby Stuart Noyes.{{cite news |title=Head of The Washington Star Was First President of AP, Serving for 38 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/12/01/archives/frank-b-noyes-85-publisher-is-dead-head-of-the-washington-star-was.html|work=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1948 |access-date=December 14, 2008 }}
Biography
Noyes was born in Washington, D.C., on July 7, 1863. He attended public schools in Washington and later went to the preparatory school of Columbian College (which later became George Washington University), but did not complete a degree. Instead, in 1881 he began to work in the Evening Star{{'s}} business department full time, though he had already worked for the Star in his spare time during high school and college.
He was manager and treasurer for the Star from 1887 to 1901. From 1901 to 1910 he lived in Chicago and edited the Chicago Recorder-Herald while remaining a director of the Evening Star, and moved back to Washington in 1910 to become president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company.{{cite book |last=Proctor |first=John Clagett |title=Washington Past and Present |publisher=Lewis Historical Pub. Co. |year=1932 |location=New York |pages=1040–1044 |author-link=John Clagett Proctor}}
Beginning in 1893, Noyes became involved with the formation of the Associated Press and was elected its president in 1900, retiring only in 1938.{{cite magazine|title=Press: McLean for Noyes|magazine=Time |date=May 2, 1938|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848936,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826062414/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,848936,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 26, 2010|access-date=March 23, 2013|volume=XXXI|issue=19}}
He married Janet Thurston Newbold on September 17, 1888. They had four children: Crosby (died in infancy), Frances Newbold Noyes, Newbold Noyes Sr., and Ethel.
Quotes
"Circumstances compel me to be an intellectual eunuch." Quoted in Time magazine, explaining why he didn't offer opinions on public issues.
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Category:Associated Press people
Category:American male journalists