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Frank Irving Cobb was born on August 06, 1869 in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States. He was the son of Minor H. Cobb and his wife Mathilda who left a farm in New York State to settle in Kansas. Unable to make the new farm pay because of a plague of grasshoppers, the Cobb family moved to a new settlement in the wilds of Michigan where the son grew up amid the rough men of a lumber camp.
Frank received the education in rural schools and attended the course at the Michigan State Normal.
Cobb was a pedagogue for a term or two at Martin, Michigan and then he sought and secured a position as school superintendent. Under twenty- one when he presented himself, he was greeted with, “We expected a man of at least thirty. ’' His reply was, “If I were thirty I wouldn’t work for you at fifteen hundred a year. ” With these words he turned on his heel, walked out, and accepted a position as reporter on the Grand Rapids Herald at a salary of six dollars a week—later becoming a political correspondent and finally city editor.
After working on a rival newspaper, the Grand Rapids Daily Eagle, he went to the Evening News of Detroit where his first job was that of political correspondent. At twenty-seven an editorial writer, he was scarcely past thirty when appointed its chief editorial writer—a position held for four years. His editorials were so terse that they attracted the attention of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World who, suffering from an affliction of the eyes, was seeking some one to take charge of the editorial department.
Coming to New York in 1904, Cobb became the confidential adviser to Pulitzer, who soon put him in control of the editorial page, though the title of editor-in-chief was not his until after Pulitzer’s death on October 29, 1911. The World, being a fighting organ or campaign sheet, was exposing corruption in the insurance world as well as in municipal affairs. Into these conflicts Cobb thrust his pen with telling effect—often at the risk of libel suits. The Democratic convention at Baltimore in 1912 found Cobb fighting against odds, local and national, to make Woodrow Wilson the Democratic nominee for president. Editorials printed in the World at this time made Wilson a life-long friend.
About eight years later on March 4, 1920, Cobb broke his office rules of short editorials to print “Woodrow Wilson—An Interpretation. ” The editorial, which later appeared in pamphlet form, was considered by many Democratic leaders an exceptionally able pen portrait of the war president. This pamphlet and editorials in the World were about all that came from Cobb’s pen except two magazine articles. To the Atlantic Monthly for November 1921 he contributed an article dealing with the military expenditures still made though the Great War had ended, and in Harper’s Magazine for June 1923 he printed an article which showed that the self-governing nations, emerging from the World War, were rejecting congressional government in favor of parliamentary government.
Offered a cabinet position by President Wilson, he declined it but did go with Colonel House to report the situation overseas. Asked by his wife whether the cabinet offer had not tempted him, he replied, “That kind of power is merely temporary anyhow and I have as much as I want on the World. ” He declined many honorary positions which were offered to him. To his editorial room, always open, came great political leaders but his most cordial welcome was saved for the ordinary man of the street. To put the latter at ease he wore a shabby office coat. Living and working in New York City, his heart was always at the little farm which he owned near Westport, Connecticut.
Frank Irving Cobb contributed a lot of articles to various periodicals and became well known for his political writings regarding the policies of Democrats, including Woodrow Wilson, during the period of widespread social activism and political reform in the United States. He was a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and the Belgian Order of Leopold.
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Cobb was active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors of which he was a director and the first vice-president.
Cobb was married first in 1897 to Delia S. Bailey, and second, on October 2, 1913, to the well- known newspaper woman, Margaret Hubbard Ayer.
