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Franklin Matthews was the son of J. H. and Mary (Force) Matthews. He was born on May 14, 1858 in St. Joseph, Michigan. He was named Albert Franklin Matthews but dropped the first name in his adult life.
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Franklin Matthews was the son of J. H. and Mary (Force) Matthews. He was born on May 14, 1858 in St. Joseph, Michigan. He was named Albert Franklin Matthews but dropped the first name in his adult life.
After receiving his secondary education in the local schools he matriculated in 1879 at Cornell University. In 1883 he received the degree of B. A. and after a year of graduate work joined the staff of J. B. Pond's lyceum bureau.
During his two years with the bureau he traveled as lecture agent for many notables, one of whom was Clara Louise Kellogg. In this year he met Talcott Williams, the managing editor of the Philadelphia Press, who employed him as a reporter. With his wife, he settled in Philadelphia, and by 1890 he was editor of the Press. After a short service with the New York World he began to write for the Sun. With this paper for twenty-two years, he worked variously as reporter, copy reader, telegraphic editor, city editor, and special correspondent. Through his association with Charles A. Dana and S. Merrill Clarke he gained an unrivaled knowledge of practical newspaper technique. He traveled widely as correspondent for the Sun and for Harper's Weekly and in a series of articles having the title "Bright Skies in the West" described the return of prosperity to the drought ridden western states. At the time of the American occupation of Cuba, he was sent by the Weekly to report conditions at Havana and Santiago de Cuba. In 1899 these dispatches were collected and issued in book form as The New-Born Cuba. About the same time he brought out a popular naval history, Our Navy in Time of War (1899). The continued popularity of this book justified its revision fifteen years later (1915). With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War he sailed for the Orient and followed the southward drive of the Japanese down the Liaotung peninsula toward Port Arthur, assisting Dr. Louis M. Seaman in gathering material for his medical history of the war. His last and most memorable experience as a correspondent came in 1907 when he accompanied the Atlantic fleet on its cruise round the world, as special correspondent for the Sun. With the Battle Fleet (1908) is the literary log of the first half of the cruise, enlivened with a wealth of seagoing anecdote. Back to Hampton Roads (1909) deals in a similar way with the return cruise from San Francisco through Australasia, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean, and home again across the Atlantic. After his return he lectured extensively upon his war experiences and on the navy, contributing articles on the same subjects to the Century, the Atlantic Magazine, and to Frank Leslie's periodicals. In 1912 he joined the staff of the New York Times as Sunday editor and the next year was night city editor. In 1912, at the invitation of Talcott Williams, he had accepted a teaching post in the Pulitzer school of journalism at Columbia University, and in 1914 he was made associate professor. He was serving in this position at the time of his death.
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In 1886 Matthews married Mary Crosby of New Haven.