Background
Vizetelly, Frank Francis Horace was born on April 2, 1864 in London, England. Son of of Henry Richard and Elizabeth Anne (Ansell) V.
Vizetelly, Frank Francis Horace was born on April 2, 1864 in London, England. Son of of Henry Richard and Elizabeth Anne (Ansell) V.
Educated Lycee Baudard, Nogent-sur-Marne, France. Arnold College, Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Doctor of Laws, Saint John's Annapolis.
Department of Philosophy.
U. Maryland.
Member Vizetelly & Company, publications, London. Associate editor Standard Dictionary, 1891-1903, managing editor, 1903-1913, editor, since 1914, new edit, 1937-1938. Associate editor Standard Dictionary abridgements, Students Editorial., 1897, Comprehensive, 1898, Concise, 1901.
Office editor of more than 250 miscellaneous publications on English, public speaking, mental efficiency, psychoanalysis, medicine, history, travel, et cetera
Associate editor in compilation of Merck’s Index of Chemicals and Drugs, 1895, 1906. Revising editor Columbian Cyclo.
(40 volumes), 1897, Cyclo. of Classified Dates, 1899. One of editors of Hoyt’s Cyclo. of Practical Quotations, the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (12 volumes), 1905-1912, and other reference books
Member Funk & Wagnalls Company’s editorial staff, since 1891.
Manager editorial department, and correspondent and recording secretary Jewish Encyclopedia Editorial Board and contributor to same, 1899-1905. Editor of “The Lexicographer’s Easy Chair,” of the Literary Digest to 1937. Office editor of the Literary Digest History of the World War (10 volumes), by F. West. Halsey, 1919.
Only civilian permitted to visit Boer detention camps in Bermuda (1901).
Radiologist from WOR (Newark, New Jersey), 1924-1926, KDKA (Pittsburgh), 1926, Way of New York City (New York), 1926-1929, KMOX (Saint Louis), National Broadcasting Company’s network through WJZ and WEAF, 1929-1930, through WABC, 1930-1931. Dean of Columbia Broadcasting System Pronunciation School, 1930-1931.
Transatlantic unrelayed record (KDKA, Pittsburgh) to Cleator Moor, near Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, November 17-18, 1926. Knight of Order of Francis-Joseph of Austria-Hungary, 1894.
Editorial Board and contributor to same, 1899-1905. Editor of “The Lexicographer’s Easy Chair,” of the Literary Digest to 1937. Office editor of the Literary Digest History of the World War (10 vols.), by F. W. Halsey, 1919.
Only civilian permitted to visit Boer detention camps in Bermuda (1901). Radiologist from WOR (Newark, New Jersey), 1924-1926, KDKA (Pittsburgh), 1926, Way of New York City (New York), 1926-1929, KMOX (St. Louis), National Broadcasting Company’s network through WJZ and WEAF, 1929-1930, through WABC, 1930-1931. Dean of Columbia Broadcasting System Pronunciation School, 1930-1931.
Transatlantic unrelayed record (KDKA, Pittsburgh) to Cleator Moor, near Whitehaven, Cumberland, England, November 17-18, 1926. Knight of Order of Francis-Joseph of Austria-Hungary, 1894.
Member Vizetelly & Company, publications, London. Member Funk & Wagnalls Company’s editorial staff, since 1891. Fellow American Geography Society.
Married Bertha M. Krehbiel, June 6, 1894.