Background
Wason, Robert Alexander was born on April 6, 1874 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert Alexander and Gertrude Louise (Paddock) Wason.
Wason, Robert Alexander was born on April 6, 1874 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Robert Alexander and Gertrude Louise (Paddock) Wason.
High schools, Delphi, 1 year.
Clerk in general store 8 years, varied by tramping and “roughing it” in the West. Served 9 months in Light Battery Doctorate, 5th United States Artillery, 1898-1899. Author: Babe Randolph’s Turning Point, 1904.
The Wolves, 1908.
Nachette (with Ned Nye), 1909. Happy Hawkins, 1909; The Steering Wheel, 1910. The Knight Errant, 1911.
The Dog and the Child and the Ancient Sailor Manitoba, 1911.
Friar Tuck, 1912; And Then Came Jean, 1913. Happy Hawkins in the Panhandle, 1914.
Knute Ericson’s Celebration, in The Grim Thirteen, 1917. Also vaudeville sketches, a comic opera, and short stories in popular magazines
Home: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.
Married Emma Louise Brownell, May 11, 1911. Children: Charles Brownell, Jane (Mistress Francisco J. Llanso), Robert Alexander.