Rollin Lynde Hartt

Background

Hartt, Rollin Lynde was born on November 20, 1869 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Son of Professor Charles Frederick (of Cornell Univercity) and Lucy Cornelia (Lynde) Hartt.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Williams College, 1892. Graduate Andover Theological Seminary, 1896.

Career

Ordained Congleton ministry, 1896. Pastor, Helena, Montana, 1896-1897, Leverett, Massachusetts, 1897-1898. Traveled extensively in America, 1899-1900, gathering magazine material.

Staff Boston Transcript until 1917, Chicago Tribune, 1917-1918, Literature Digest, 1919.

Publicity work for Methodist Centenary, 1920. Traveling reporter for World’s Work, 1923-1924.

Author: The People at Play. Ruth of the Dolphin; Understanding the French.

Confessions of a Clergyman (anon.).

The Manitoba Himself (The Nazarene), 1923. The Clerk of the Day (Transcript semi-weekly column). As I Was Saying (daily in New York Tribune).

And many magazine articles

Home: New New York

Achievements

• Rollin Lynde Hartt has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Jessie Clark Knight, December 25, 1901 (died April. Married second, Helen Harrington, June 1, 1921. Children: John Francis (adopted), Charles Frederick.

Father:

Professor Charles Frederick (of Cornell Univercity) Hartt

Mother:

Lucy Cornelia (Lynde) Hartt

Spouse:

Helen Harrington

Spouse:

Jessie Clark Knight

child:

John Francis Hartt (adopted)

child:

Charles Frederick Hartt