Frederick Myron Colby

Frederick Myron Colby was an American writer, educator and politician.

Biography

Frederick Myron Colby was born in Warner, New Hampshire on December 9, 1848.
He wrote for a variety of publications aimed at youths such as The Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas. He was also a regular contributor to Granite Monthly. He also wrote a series of historical books aimed primarily at children. He was the head of Simonds Free High School in his hometown of Warner, New Hampshire, from 1910 to 1915. He was a Democrat who held a variety of local offices in Warner and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress in 1908. He married the writer H. Maria George Colby on December 24, 1882.
Colby died at his home in Warner on May 19, 1920.