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Thomas Francis Beard was born on February 6, 1842, the son of James H. Beard and Mary Caroline (Carter) Beard, came of a talented and well-known Cincinnati family.
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Chalk Lessons, or the Black-Board in the Sunday-School: Practical Guide for Superintendents and Teachers (Classic Reprint)
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Thomas Francis Beard
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Frank Beard
Education
Thomas Beard was educated in the schools of Cincinnati and Painesville, Ohio.
Career
Known always as Frank Beard, the illustrator started his career early. Before he was twelve he was sending sketches to all the important periodicals, including Yankee Notions, one of the earliest American illustrated papers. At the outbreak of the Civil War, though only a boy of eighteen, he was commissioned by Leslie's Weekly and Harper's Weekly to act as cartoonist for the Army of the Potomac. He served at the same time in the 7th Ohio Regiment. After the war he began lecturing, and at this time originated his "Chalk Talks, " popular lectures with rapid chalk illustrating.
From 1881 to 1884 Beard held the chair of aesthetics and painting at Syracuse University and in 1884, during the Blaine campaign, was editor of Judge. A. B. Paine in Thomas Nast, His Period and His Pictures (1904) has described the remarkable bitterness of the Cleveland-Blaine campaign. George William Curtis and Thomas Nast were almost equally victims of newspaper attacks. In Judge, Frank Beard "never missed an opportunity of presenting him (Curtis) as a saint, a circus performer, or a 'Miss Nancy' . .. usually grinding an organ, while Nast, as a monkey, performed at his command. " Nast's own ideas and illustrations were used against him.
As early as 1877, Beard had published The Blackboard in the Sunday School, A Practical Guide for Superintendents and Teachers, and he now became more interested in religious publications and in Chautauqua lectures than in social and political reform by means of cartoons. Most of his best-known work was done in connection with Sunday schools and the Chautauqua movement. About twenty years before his death he began illustrating for the Ram's Horn, a religious weekly published in Chicago. In 1890 he became one of the editors and thereafter devoted all of his time to it. The American Art Annual, 1905-06, in an obituary notice, states that his cartoons directed against the liquor evil were often extremely effective. He also illustrated a few religious and other books.
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Chalk Lessons, or the Black-Board in the Sunday-School: Practical Guide for Superintendents and Teachers (Classic Reprint)
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Chalk Lessons, or the Black-Board in the Sunday-School: Practical Guide for Superintendents and Teachers (Classic Reprint)
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Thomas Beard was married in 1867 to Helen Augusta Goodwin.
