Robert Frothingham (1865–1937) was born in Galesville, Wisconsin, where his father, Reverend John Frothingham, served as the county’s first Presbyterian minister (NYT obituary, citation). After marrying Minnie Yerdon, he became the father of one daughter and three sons; at least one son, Donald, shared his adventurous spirit and later, like his father, became a member of the Circumnavigators Club, an organization for people who have traveled the entire globe (CITATION).

At the age of fourteen, Frothingham’s family moved to Philadelphia, where he got a job at the Sunday School Times of Philadelphia as a press feeder, meaning someone who feeds paper into a press (Ad Sense 268). By the age of seventeen, he was living in New York and working as a telegraph operator for the Mail and Express as part of the Washington Press news services (Ad Sense and Advertising & selling 270). He was moved into a reporter position at the paper when he witnessed a fire at the Western Union Telegraph offices—he was said to be the last one out of the building—and his account was telegraphed around the country (Ad Sense and Advertising & selling 270). From the Mail and Express, he moved to the Brooklyn Eagle…

Around 1890 (?), he moved to Brooklyn, where he began his career as a reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle and the New York Sun. He soon transitioned into advertising, working for prominent magazines such as The Forum, Leslie’s Magazine, Life Magazine, and Everybody’s Magazine. His New York Times obituary later described him as “one of the most prominent advertising managers of the early 1900s” (NYT obituary, Brooklyn Eagle).

Affiliations: Frothingham belonged to a range of organizations, including the Explorers Club, Camp-Fire Club, the Natural History Museum, the Circumnavigators Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, the Arctic Brotherhood of Nome, Alaska, the Philippine Club, and the Adventurers Club (Brooklyn Eagle, Who’s Who).

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Frothingham was the editor of the “Old Songs that Men Have Sung” column of Adventure Magazine, 1922-1923 (LOC Folk Center)

American folklorist Robert Winslow Gordon, a renowned folklorist who took over the column in 1923.

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• The Pioneer: a Biography (1920)
• Around the World: a Friendly Guide for the World Traveler (1925)
• Trails Through the Golden West (1932)

A series of folk songs and poetry anthologies, Frothingham selected and arranged:

• Songs of Men (1918)
• Songs of Dogs (1920)
• Songs of Horses (1920)
• Songs of the Sea & Sailors’ Chanteys (1924)
• Songs of Adventure (1926)

Brooklyn Eagle

“The Grand Canyon of Colorado in Arizona” at the New York Athletic Club (citation) and “With Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies” at the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (citation)

Lecture booklet

• The Stupendious Marvael of the Arizona Desert 
• With Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies
• Trailing the Pagen Head-Hunters in the Philippines
• Hunting Mountain Lion in the Grand Canyon
• Stalking Grizzly Bear and Caribou in the British Columbia Wilderness