Background
Crissey, Forrest was born on June 1, 1864 in Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York, United States. Son of Merrill and Eunice (Tracy) Crissey.
Crissey, Forrest was born on June 1, 1864 in Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York, United States. Son of Merrill and Eunice (Tracy) Crissey.
Educational public schools, New York and Illinois.
1 son, Paul L. Began as country correspondent Chicago Times, at Marengo. First fiction story, written at age of 20, accepted by Ballou’s Monthly, Boston. Went to Geneva, Illinois, on the Patrol (a county newspaper), to Chicago, 1893, and was connected with the Chicago Times and other newspapers.
Reporter Chicago Evening Post, 1895, special editorial and feature writer, same, 1896-1900.
Became special editorial representative Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post, 1900, and almost ever since identified with that publication Author: The Country Boy, 1897. (poems) In Thompson’s Woods, 1901.
Tattlings of a Retired Politician, 1904. Hand-Book of Modern Business Correspondence, 1908.
Where Opportunity Knocks Twice, 1914.
The Story of Foods, 1917. Romance of Moving Money, 1934. Progress in the Probate Court, 1935.
Life and Times of Senator Theodore East. Burton, 1936.
Biography of Alexander Legge, 1936. Montgomery Ward; Founder of Mail Order Selling—the Manitoba and the System, 1939.
Contributor to Country Gentleman, Harper’s, et cetera Specialist in institutional biographies.
Home: Geneva, Kane County, Illinois.
Married Kate Doctorate. Shurtleff, July 14, 1887.