OBIT: Frank Lee CARL, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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FRANK LEE CARL

  Frank Lee Carl, dean of Cumberland newspapermen, died at his home in that 
city, March 20th.  He was born in Hancock, Md, May 11, 1871, and had been in 
failing health the last year, and was bedfast since last Christmas.
  He was engaged in newspaper work about 58 years of the nearly 74 years of his 
life, beginning as a correspondent of country weeklies at the age of 16.  He 
became editor, publisher and owner of the Hancock weekly Star before he was 21 
years old.
  In 1893 he became city editor of the Hagerstown Morning Herald and in 1896 he 
came to Cumberland and was city editor of the Daily News for eighteen years, and 
about 28 years ago joined the editorial staff of the Evening Times as city 
editor, which position he resigned last May, owing to failing health. 
  At one time he was correspondent for at least twenty metropolitan papers, and 
for fifty years sent most of the news that went from Cumberland to Washington, 
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and other metropolitan papers.
  He had a wide circle of friends and was among the best informed men on local 
affairs and history in Western Maryland and the tri-state area adjacent to 
Cumberland.
  The veteran editor had one of the largest collections pertaining to local 
history, including nearby West Virginia and Pennsylvania.  His more than forty 
scrapbooks cover an almost unlimited variety of subjects.
  He is survived by his wife, a daughter, a granddaughter and three brothers.  
He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cumberland and was laid to 
rest in Rose Hill Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, March 29, 1945