Frederick William Allsopp (June 25, 1867 – April 9, 1946) was a writer, newspaperman, book collector, and bookstore owner.
Biography
Allsopp was born in
Wolverhampton
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,
Staffordshire
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, England. At the age of twelve, his family moved to
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, in
Nevada County. He sold newspapers during his youth and in 1884, he worked in the printing department of the ''Nevada County Picayune''. At the age of seventeen, he applied for a job at the ''
Arkansas Gazette
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'' in
Little Rock
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, where by 1899, he became the
business manager
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. Allsopp presided over the ''Arkansas Gazette'' for more than forty years.
Allsopp was an
author
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and was co-owner of Allsopp & Chapple Bookstore in Little Rock. In 1922, he was named chairman of the 'Committee on a Code' of professional ethics of the Arkansas Press Association, and was later named APA historian "for life." He built the
Hotel Frederica designed by
Theodore M. Sanders and named for his wife Mary Freiderica Chapple Allsopp.
Allsop died on April 9, 1946, and is buried in Little Rock's
Mount Holly Cemetery
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. Allsopp Park, in Little Rock, is named in his honor.
Works
*''Twenty years in a newspaper office'' Central printing company, Little Rock, 1907
*''The life story of Albert Pike'', Parke-Harper news service, Little Rock, 1920
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*''History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More'' 1922
*''Little Adventures in Newspaperdom'' 1922
*''Rhyneries'' 1924
*''Rimeries'' 1926][
*''Folklore of Romantic Arkansas'' (2 volumes; New York: The Grolier Society, 1931]
References
Further reading
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External links
Fred Allsop
at Encyclopedia Of Arkansas
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1867 births
1946 deaths
20th-century American philanthropists
American newspaper publishers (people)
English emigrants to the United States
People from Prescott, Arkansas
Philanthropists from Arkansas
Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas
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