Frederick Schrader
Toronto Daily Star, July 6 1931
Frederick Franklin Schrader (1857-1943) was an American journalist and playwright. He started his career in 1879 as the managing editor of the Denver Republican newspaper and held a number of editorial and journalistic positions throughout his career, which appears to have extended to about the end of the First World War. Along the way, he was the manager of Tootie's Opera House of St. Joseph (Missouri) from 1884 to 1886 and he wrote a number of plays.
Schrader was American, but he had connections to Germany, having been born in Hamburg. In 1914, just before the war, he co-founded a journal called The Fatherland. This became a little awkward when Germany and the United States went to war, especially when it was alleged that the German government gave $100,000 to The Fatherland. By way of response, Schrader published a small book with the lengthy title of Handbook; Political, Statistical and Sociological, for German Americans and All Other Americans Who Have Not Forgotten the History and Traditions of Their Country and Who Believe in the Principles of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
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