Frederick W. Allsopp
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{{Short description|British-US-American author, newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Fred Allsopp
| birth_name = Frederick William Allsopp
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1867|06|25}}
| birth_place = Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|04|09|1867|06|25}}
| death_place = Little Rock, Arkansas
| occupation = Newspaperman
| known_for = Business manager of the Arkansas Gazette
}}
Frederick William Allsopp (June 25, 1867 – April 9, 1946) was a writer, newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/11/archives/fred-allsopp-served-same-paper-61-years.html | title=Fred Allsopp, Served Same Paper 61 Years | newspaper=The New York Times | date=11 April 1946 }}
Biography
Allsopp was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. At the age of twelve, his family moved to Prescott, in Nevada County. He sold newspapers during his youth and in 1884, he worked in the printing department of the Nevada County Picayune. At the age of seventeen, he applied for a job at the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, where by 1899, he became the business manager. Allsopp presided over the Arkansas Gazette for more than forty years.
Allsopp was an author{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AAllsopp%2C+Fred+W.&qt=results_page|title=Results for 'au:Allsopp, Fred W.' [WorldCat.org]|work=worldcat.org}} and was co-owner of Allsopp & Chapple Bookstore in Little Rock. In 1922, he was named chairman of the 'Committee on a Code' of professional ethics of the Arkansas Press Association, and was later named APA historian "for life." He built the Hotel Frederica designed by Theodore M. Sanders and named for his wife Mary Freiderica Chapple Allsopp.{{cite web | url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/jul/15/a-nose-for-news-20180715/ | title=A nose for news? | date=15 July 2018 }} Allsop died on April 9, 1946, and is buried in Little Rock's Mount Holly Cemetery. Allsopp Park, in Little Rock, is named in his honor.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2481|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Arkansas|title=Fred Allsopp (1867–1946)|author=C. Dennis Schick|date=2009}}
Works
- Twenty years in a newspaper office Central printing company, Little Rock, 1907
- The life story of Albert Pike, Parke-Harper news service, Little Rock, 1920
- History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More 1922
- Little Adventures in Newspaperdom 1922
- Rhyneries 1924
- Rimeries 1926{{cite web | title=Frederick W. Allsopp | website=WorldCat Entities | date=9 April 1946 | url=https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp6bc9ht39YQtdjQTDDv3.html | access-date=9 May 2023}}
- The Poets and Poetry of Arkansas by Fred W. Allsopp 1933
- Folklore of Romantic Arkansas (2 volumes; New York: The Grolier Society, 1931{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Allsopp%2C%20Fred%20W%2E%20%28Fred%20William%29%2C%201867%2D1946 |title=Fred W. Allsopp (Allsopp, Fred W. (Fred William), 1867-1946) | The Online Books Page |publisher=Onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2023-05-09}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite web |url=https://robertslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/07/2000_june.pdf#page=6 |title=Portion of Allsopp Book Collection Donated to Butler Center |access-date=2021-07-20 |work=The Butler Banner |publisher=Butler Center for Arkansas Studies}}
External links
- [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=2481 Fred Allsop] at Encyclopedia Of Arkansas
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Category:20th-century American philanthropists
Category:American newspaper publishers (people)
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:People from Prescott, Arkansas
Category:Philanthropists from Arkansas
Category:Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas
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