Background
Taylor, Frank J. was born on October 8, 1894 in Wessington, South Dakota, United States. Son of John S. and Ellen (Stobbs) Taylor.
Taylor, Frank J. was born on October 8, 1894 in Wessington, South Dakota, United States. Son of John S. and Ellen (Stobbs) Taylor.
Student Stanford University, 1914-1917.
Reporter for Los Angeles Examiner, 1913. Correspondent for San Francisco Examiner, 1916-1917, for San Francisco bureau of Associate Press, 1915-1917. War correspondent for United Press, with American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1918.
Covered Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Russia during post-war revolutions, 1919.
With United Presbyterian in New York and Washington, 1919-1920. Assistant managing editor New York Globe, later Albany and Washington correspondent, 1920-1921.
Manager Washington bureau Scripps-Howard Newspapers, 1921-1924. Advertising writer, 1925-1930.
Magazine and book writing since 1924.
War correspondent, Pacific Area, for 1945.
Member Sigma Chirurgical; Clubs: San Francisco Press, Bohemian.
Married Katherine Elizabeth Ames, June 30, 1919. Children: Franklin James (deceased), Paul Ames, Robert Wilson.