Background
Sparkes, Boyden was born on January 6, 1890 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas Kinsey and Lillian Cary (Cochnower) Sparkes.
Sparkes, Boyden was born on January 6, 1890 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas Kinsey and Lillian Cary (Cochnower) Sparkes.
Student Columbia, 1921-1922.
Worked as reporter for Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, 1907, Chicago Examiner, 1910. Chicago Record Herald, 1911, Manila Cable News American, 1912. San Francisco Call, 1912-1913.
Various editorial positions with Associaited Press, 1914-1916, New York Evening Sun and New York American, 1917, New York Tribune and New York Herald-Tribune, 1918-1924.
Traveled as Tribune’s correspondent with Warren G. Harding, 1920-1921, with Charles G. Dawes, campaign of 1924. Contributor to magazines since 1924, principally to Saturday Evening Post, also writer of short fiction.
Served as lieutenant 1st Illinois Cavalry on Mexican border, 1916. Mason.; Clubs: Players, Dutch Treat (New York).
Married Bessie Ledford Gore, January 26, 1914. Children: Betty Ledford (Mistress Joseph C. Eagles, Junior.