Background
O’Brien, Frederick was born in 1869 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of William J. and Catherine (McCarthy) O’B.
O’Brien, Frederick was born in 1869 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of William J. and Catherine (McCarthy) O’B.
Sailor, 1887-1888; hobo, casual worker, 1891-1894. Newspaper work, beginning 1894, in Ohio, New York, California, Hawaii, the Orient and Europe. Public Manila Cablenews, 1902-1909.
Correspondent New York Herald, 1903-1909, including Japanese-Russian War. Traveled around the world, 1906-1907. In South Seas several years and in the Orient, Europe, Africa, West Indies, S. and Central America until 1927.
Fellow American Geography Society.
Married Gertrude Frye, 1897.