Frederick Myron Colby
{{short description|American writer, educator and politician}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|12|9}}
| birth_place = Warner, New Hampshire, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1920|5|19|1848|12|9}}
| death_place = Warner, New Hampshire
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| occupation = Writer, educator, politician
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| spouse = {{Marriage|H. Maria George Colby|December 24, 1882|March 29, 1910|end=d.}}
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| party = Democrat
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Frederick Myron Colby (December 9, 1848 – May 19, 1920) was an American writer, educator and politician.
Biography
Frederick Myron Colby was born in Warner, New Hampshire on December 9, 1848.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami04stea_0/page/1570/mode/1up |title=Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire |volume=IV |editor-first=Ezra S. |editor-last=Stearns |editor-link=Ezra Scollay Stearns |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company |page=1570 |date=1908 |access-date=2024-11-21 |via=Internet Archive}}
He wrote for a variety of publications aimed at youths such as The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas. He was also a regular contributor to Granite Monthly. He also wrote a series of historical books aimed primarily at children. He was the head of Simonds Free High School in his hometown of Warner, New Hampshire, from 1910 to 1915. He was a Democrat who held a variety of local offices in Warner and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress in 1908. He married the writer H. Maria George Colby on December 24, 1882.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=190}}
Colby died at his home in Warner on May 19, 1920.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lewiston-daily-sun-frederick-myron-c/159516765/ |title=Frederick Myron Colby |newspaper=The Lewiston Daily Sun |place=Warner, New Hampshire |page=12 |date=1920-05-19 |publication-date=1920-05-20 |access-date=2024-11-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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- Henry Harrison Metcalf and Frances M. Abbott. One Thousand New Hampshire Notables (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1919), p. 4.
=Bibliography=
- {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXEEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton|isbn=9780722217139}} }}
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Category:American children's writers