Publishers

Francis Welsch "Frank" Crowninshield was born on 24 Jun 1872 in Paris, France to Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1918) and Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921) and died on 28 Dec 1944 in Manhattan, New York, USA; he is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. In 1914 Nast started talking to Frank with an idea for a magazine and said “there is no magazine which covers the things people talk about at parties - the arts, sports, humor, and so forth. Nast without hesitation asked Frank to start his magazine which he called at first Dress And Vanity Fair. Frank agreed to take on Nast’s request and would turn it into America’s most successful and memorable magazine ever created and is even still today.Frank or “Crownie” as his close friends would call him, was the bonafide paterfamilias of the magazine in which Frank changed the name to Vanity Fair. Frank has worded for a few magazine before he founded and became the first Editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair; he was the publisher of “The Bookman” from 1895 to 1900, editor of the Metropolitan from 1900 to 1902 and the editor of “Munsey’s” from 1903 to 1907. In 1919 Frank published “Have They Attacked Mary. He Giggled,” by Gertude Stein; in the same year he also lured away from Vogue a woman named Dorothy Rothschild and published her work, “Men: A Hate Song.” Crowninshield published the first works of many greats including the actor Noel Coward whom my uncle, Frederick Josiah Bradlee III aka Frederic Bradlee met in 1921 when Coward and Gertrude Lawrence were in the play in Boston in “Tonight at 8:30.”  My uncle remembered going into Coward’s dressing room who he Freddy was accompanied by the editor of the play. According to my uncle, Freddy, “I remember Coward’s affixing me with a penetrating glance, as the famed staccato accents rapped out, “Your Uncle Frank paid me the first dollar I ever earned in America. As I was almost starving at the time, I was positively enchanted to get it.”In November 1929 Abigail Green “Abby” Aldrich the wife of John D. Rockerfell, was one of the driving forces to establish the Museum of Modern Art on 53rd Street, New York with two of her friends Lizzi Plummer Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. For the president of the museum, Aldrich had invited Anson Conger Goodyear who was the former president of the board of trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; and Goodyear recruited Frank to join him as one of the founders of the trustees.

Sgt. John Perkins, Jr. was born on 14 Sep 1609 in Hillmorton, County Warwickshire, England and died on 14 Dec 1686 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, North America. He was baptized on 14 Sep 1609 in Hillmorton, County Warwickshire, England. He is buried in Old Burying Ground in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, North America. He arrived on the ship “The Lyon” in 1631 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, North America. He was a Quartermaster. He became engaged in the fishing business very early. He opened the first publishing house in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, North America. He married in about 1636 to Elizabeth Unknown (1606 - 1684).