Francis Whiting Halsey (October 15, 1851 – 1919), was a journalist and historian, born in Unadilla, New York. Unadilla is a Town located in Otsego County, New York, USA As of the 2000 census the town had a population of 4548 He was the son of Dr. Gaius Leonard Halsey, a Civil War surgeon, and Juliet (Cartington) Halsey. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental He was the grandson of Dr. Gaius and Mary (Church) Halsey of Kortright, New York, and a descendant of Thomas Halsey, who emigrated from England before 1640 and helped to found the settlement of Southampton, Long Island, one of the earliest English settlements in New York. Kortright is a Town in Delaware County, New York, United States. Southampton New York may refer to Southampton (town New York in Suffolk County Southampton (village New York, in the town of Southampton England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous
Francis Halsey prepared for college at the Unadilla academy and graduated from Cornell University in 1873, taking one of the prizes for an essay in English literature. Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He was assistant editor of the Binghamton Times (1873-1875), a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune (1875-1880), and in 1880 joined the staff of the New York Times as foreign editor and writer of book reviews. The New York Tribune was an American newspaper first established by Horace Greeley in 1841 which was long considered one of the leading Newspapers in the He was literary editor of the Times from 1892 through 1896, and established of the Times Saturday Review of Books and Art in 1896.
He was elected president of the New York association of Cornell alumni in 1882 and was twice the candidate of New York and other alumni for trustee of Cornell in 1882 and 1883, during the alumni agitation for new methods in university management. He was elected a member of the Aldine and Cornell clubs in New York. He lectured on early American history and made addresses before the New York Historical Society, the New York library club and the Wyoming, Pennsylvania Commemorative Association. The New-York Historical Society is an American organization located in New York City and dedicated to the preservation of the city's history Wyoming is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, five miles (8 km north of Wilkes Barre, on the Susquehanna River.
In 1883, he married Virginia Isabel, daughter of Alexander Stanton and Sarah Ann Forbes of New York City, however Virginia died in 1900. The City of New York
Halsey was the author of: Two Months Abroad (1878); and The Old New York Frontier, an historical work. He also issued anonymously, Virginia Isabel Forbes, a memoir of his wife, printed privately in 1900. He wrote an extended introduction for a volume of family history entitled Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England and Southampton, Long Island; and made contributions on historical subjects and travel to several periodicals. In 1902 he joined the staff of D. Appleton & Co. publishers, as literary adviser.
Halsey's brother, Frederick Arthur Halsey, graduated from Cornell in 1878 with a degree in mechanical engineering, authored articles and books about engineering, with an emphasis the metric system, and was editor of the American Machinist. Frederick's daughters were Marion S. and Olga S. Halsey.
Works
- Two Months Abroad (1878)
- Virginia Isabel Forbes (1900), a memoir of his wife
- The Old New York Frontier: Its Wars with Indians and Tories, its Missionary Schools, Pioneers and Land Titles, 1614-1800, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901
- The Pioneers of Unadilla Village
- The World's Famous Orations (with William Jennings Bryan) (ed. For other persons of the same name see William Bryan and William Jennings. 1906)
- The Best of the World's Classics (with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge)
- Great Epochs in American History, Described by Famous Writers, From Columbus to Roosevelt (ed. This article is about Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924 a US politician in the early twentieth century 1912)
- Works by Francis Whiting Halsey at Project Gutenberg
- Seeing Europe with Famous Authors (Project Gutenberg) (ed. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works 1914)
- An introduction to Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679, with his American Descendents to the Eighth and Ninth Generations, by Jacob LaFayette Halsey and Edmund Drake Halsey (1895)
- The Literary Digest History of the World War, compiled from Original and Contemporary Sources: American, British, French, German, and Others (10 Volumes)
- Our Literary Deluge And Some of Its Deeper Waters
- American Authors And Their Homes, Personal Descriptions And Interviews, J. Pott & Company, New York, 1901