Frederick Franklin Schrader (27 October 1857

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- 1943) was an American

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and

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Biography

He was the son of a

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, and came to the United States with his parents in 1869. He was educated in public schools in

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, and

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, and received academic training in Hamburg. Throughout his life, Schrader held the following positions: managing editor of the

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''Republican'', 1879–1881; of the St. Joseph ''Herald'', 1882–1884; manager of Tootle's Opera House of St. Joseph, 1884–1886; Pope's Theatre of

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, 1886–1887; secretary of the Board of Trade of St. Joseph, 1887–1891;

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correspondent of the ''

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'', 1891–1894; assistant and acting secretary, Republican Congressional Committee, 1896–1900; author of ''Republican Text Book'', 1898; political writer Washington ''Post'', 1894–1896, and then dramatic editor, 1901–1906; correspondent for the ''

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'' after 1896; on the literary staff of

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, 1906–1909; dramatic editor of the New York ''Globe'', 1909–1910; editor of the ''

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''; president of a publishing company, 19 August 1912 to 9 September 1916; co-founder with

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of ''The Fatherland'', August 1914; and for some time associate editor and later editor of ''Issues and Events''. In December 1918, before a

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committee, Schrader denied ever profiting from, or even being aware of, the $100,000 which Deputy Attorney General Alfred Becker alleged the German government paid to ''The Fatherland''.

Family

On June 6, 1879, he married Anna McNulty. She died on February 16, 1894, and on November 6, 1895, he married Marie R. Bailey.

Works

Plays

* ''At the French Ball (Fanny Rice)'' * ''The Man from Texas'' * ''Proposal by Proxy'' * ''Hawkeye'' * ''Checkmate'' * ''The Modern Lady Godiva'' * ''At the French Ball'' * ''Nicolette'', comic opera, music by Irenée Bergé, translated into

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and produced in New York, 25 December 1915 * ''Corsica'',

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in one act, music by Irenée Bergé, produced in 1910 He was the

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for ''

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'', produced in

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(1911) and

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(1912).

Books

* ''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'', (New York, 1916) * ''1683-1920. The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them; Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools; Rewriting the History of the United States; the Espionage Act and How it Worked ... (etc. etc.) and a Thousand Other Topics'', New York: Concord Publishing Co., 1920. * ''Prussia and the United States:

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's influence on the

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'', Hoboken, New Jersey: The Concord Society, 1923. * ''The Germans in the making of America'' (with a foreword by Edward F. McSweeney), Stratford Company, 1924; new edition: Dodo Press (March 2007) * ''The Concordat of 1933 between Holy See and German State'' (pamphlet), 1933

Translations

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, ''Freie Liebe'' (''Paris Sketches'') * Otto Ruppius, ''José'', a novel

References

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