Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-01
FRANK LESLIE.

Henry Carter, more populally known
us "Frank Leslie" died at his residence,
No. 5l1 Fifth avenue. at > AS p. III. Sat
urday, OF fibrous cancer in TIE throat,
from which he had been suffering for
eight weeks past, and which ultimately
caused congestion of the brain, the I'M
mediate cause OF his death.
Henry Carter was born at Ipswich,
England, in 1921, and in early fife he
evinced a passion for engraving grotesque
and curious designs in wood. His fancy
for the manipulation of engravers' tools
was developed in his frequent visits to a
silversmiths. He also acquired q knowl
edge of glovemakIng from his father
Joseph Carter. who was an extensive
glove manufacturer at Ipswich, and he
became a clerk in the glove department
in an extensive establishment in London
when seventeen years old. Here he al
so followed his inclination for sketching
and engraving, and soon ieiloWed it us Il
business. HIS father and other relatl YES
being averse to this pursuit, in order TO
keep it secret from them. he assumed
the non de plume Drank Leslie When
twen,y wears old he married. but was
separated from his wife III 1860, taking
with him his three sons-Henry, Alfred
and Sciplo, the latter dying last year.
Garter soon became one of the first en-
gravers and artists OH wood Of his time,
and shortly attel his first marriage was
was given charge Of the engraving de-
partment of the Illustrated London NeNs,
and there learned the system of regulat
ing light and shade effect In pictorial
printing, an improvement which he was
first to introduce to this country, and
which now forms 50 important an ele-
ment in illustrated journalism
Believing that wider field lay in this
country. he came here in 1913, and after
declaring his intention OF remaining, Sc
cured an act of the Legislature to enable
him to assume the iame of Frank Leslie,
under which his fal,a as an artist in wood
had preceded, him. His American Ca
reer began with Gleasons pictorial. La
ter, when Barnum and Beach started an
illustrated paper, Leslie was made sup
erintcndent of the engraving department,
where he remained until the failure Of
the paper, in 1854, when he began the
publication OF Frank LesEie's Lady's
MagaZl Inc, and shortly afterward of the
New York journal. On December II,
1855, Frank Leslie's illustrated News
paper was startled, in which were the
graphic illustrations of the Burdell muir
der, the Inauguration of President Buch-
anan-the first Presidential election ever
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Of the swill milk horrors, for his action
in regard to which Mr. Leslie received
public recognition and a public testi-
monial of the execution of John Brown; ;
Of the Lynn Strike; of the Heenan and
Savers contest; of the japanese Commits
sion; Of the Atlantic cable; the Civil
War; OF the Lincoln assassination; the
Chicago and Boston Fires, and of other
cngrossing subjects.
In 1865, Mr.. Leslie started the CHM
ney Corner, the editing of which, togeth-
er with the Lady's Magazine, was done
by lis second wife. Following IN rapid
succession were published the Boys and
Girls Weekly, Pleasant Hours, Lady's
Journal, Popular Monthly, Sunday Mag
azine, Budget OF fun, Chatterbox and IL
lustricte Zietung. He also published re-
prints of novels, and in 1876 the Histor-
cal Register of the Centennial EXPOSE
ton. Mr.. Leslie was the first publish
er who maintained a full engraving es-
Enlistment for his own publications.
Large double PACED engravlngs which
formerly required two weeks TO produce
by his invention were put upon the wood
and engraved i'll single night.