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Frank Moore Colby was born on February 10, 1865 in Washington, D. C. , United States. He was of New England stock, the son of Stoddard Benham and Ellen Cornelia (Hunt) Colby.
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The Colby Essays, Volume Two: Tailor Blood and Other Notes and Comments Hardcover Jan 01, 1926 Frank Moore Colby and Clarence Day Jr.
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Frank Moore Colby was born on February 10, 1865 in Washington, D. C. , United States. He was of New England stock, the son of Stoddard Benham and Ellen Cornelia (Hunt) Colby.
Colby graduated from Columbia University in 1888. He took his master’s degree the next year in political science.
From 1890 to 1891 Colby was an acting professor of history in Amherst College. He returned to Columbia as lecturer in history in the College and instructor in Barnard College, 1892-1895; and then went to New York University as professor of economics. Meanwhile, to eke out his salary as a teacher, he had begun to write for encyclopedias and so drifted into what proved to be his life-work. His first staff position was as editor, 1893-1895, the history and political science department of Johnson’s Encyclopedia.
In 1898 he became editor of the International Year Book, later named the New International Year Book, of which he remained editor until his death. In 1899 appeared his Outlines of General History, a succinct, well-devised text-book, which in 1921 went into a fourth edition. In 1900 he gave up his academic post in order to give all his attention to editing and writing. He was an editorial writer for the New York Commercial Advertiser, 1900-1902, was on the staff of the International Encyclopedia, and was American editor of Nelson’s Encyclopedia.
With Daniel Coit Gilman and Harry Thurston Peck he was editor of the New International- Encyclopedia, 1901-1903, and with Talcott Williams supervised the publication of the second edition, 1913-1915. He also edited the two supplementary volumes of 1924 besides doing his annual work on the Year Book. The bulk of the editorial responsibility was his in each case. The merits of the New International were largely due to his genius for planning and organization and to the high standards of literary expression to which he held his contributors. He was a man of broad and accurate learning though he once maintained that it would be no homicide to shoot a man with an “encyclopaedic mind” and was fond of comparing himself to a chute down which tons of general information plunged annually in a long, deafening roar, leaving only a trail of dust behind. That learning came as a surprise at times to readers of certain popular magazines who never guessed that the author of witty, pungent brief essays on books, plays, and manners was anything besides a literary journalist.
At one time or another Colby wrote either as regular contributor or as member of the staff for the Bookman, Harper’s Weekly, the New Republic, Vanity Fair, the North American Review, and Harper’s Magazine. He collected some of his magazine work in several volumes of essays: Imaginary Obligations (1904), Constrained Attitudes (1910), and The Margin of Hesitation (1921). His literary work is best represented, however, in a two-volume collection of excerpts and whole essays, gleaned from the entire range of his magazine writing, which appeared after his death. In his personal essays he is revealed as an original, masculine mind expressing itself with remarkable vigor and precision. He was consciously a stylist, often rewriting his ideas to bring them nearer to perfection. He was reserved almost to the point of shyness, though an excellent talker with those he knew well.
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Colby married Harriet Wood Fowler of Amherst, Massachusetts on December 30, 1896.
