Frederic Gregory Mather
Frederic Gregory Mather (11 August 1844, in Cleveland, Ohio – 30 August 1925, in Stamford, Connecticut) was a United States journalist.
Biography
He was the son of banker Samuel Holmes Mather (1813–1894) and Emily Worthington Gregory (1815–1900). He attended Cleveland High School, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1867. For a time he worked and studied law in Cleveland, but did not practice, instead choosing scientific and literary pursuits. In 1874 he became managing editor of the Times at Binghamton, New York, and in 1875 editor-in-chief of the Republican in the same city, but resigned the place in 1879. He wrote editorials for the Albany Evening Journal in 1880, and then became the resident Albany correspondent of several newspapers. He frequently contributed articles to periodicals, chiefly on historical, economic, and scientific subjects.
Family
In 1871, he married Cornelia Heyer Olcutt (c.1847-1874). They had one daughter. He later married Alice Evelyn Yeager (b. 1853) in 1880.
References
- "Frederic Gregory Mather". matherclan.com. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
- "Mather, Frederic Gregory". Access Genealogy. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Mather, Frederic Gregory". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links
- "Mather, Samuel Holmes". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. An article on his father.
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