Joseph
Alexander Altsheler
Rating:
5 out of 10 stars
My
term: “Streaky”
From Wikipedia: “Altsheler
was born in Three Springs, Hart County, Kentucky to Joseph and Louise
(Snoddy) Altsheler.[1] In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville
Courier-Journal as a reporter and later, an editor. He started
working for the New York World in 1892, first as the paper's Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor
of the World's tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing children's
stories for the magazine.
Altsheler married Sarah Boles
on May 30, 1888, and had one son. He and his family were in Germany
when World War I began. The difficult journey home took a huge toll
on Altsheler's health and he was never the same. He died in New York
City in 1919.”
