Frank Lebby Stanton
Frank Lebby Stanton , frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L. Stanton, was an American lyricist.
Stanton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Valentine Stanton and his wife Catherine Rebecca Parry Stanton, whose father owned a plantation on Kiaweh Island. From early childhood he was influenced by the hymns of Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley and was reared in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. After starting school in Savannah, Georgia, Frank Lebby Stanton found his education cut off by the American Civil War. At the age ofhe became apprenticed to a printer, a position which allowed him to enter the newspaper business. In 1887 he met Leone Josey while he was working for the Smithville News they married and, in 1888, moved to Rome, Georgia, where Frank Lebby Stanton had received an offer from John Temple Graves to serve as night editor for the Rome Tribune. With encouragement from Joel Chandler Harris, Stanton in 1889 switched to the Atlanta Constitution , and began to focus more on writing editorials and columns, a newspaper role which he filled from then until Stanto
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