The New International Encyclopædia/Frothingham, Richard

FROTHINGHAM, Richard (1812-80). An American journalist and historical writer, born in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1839, 1840, 1842, 1849, and 1850; was Mayor of Charlestown in 1851-53; was a delegate to the National Democratic Conventions of 1851, 1852, and 1876; and from 1852 to 1865 was managing editor of the Boston Post, of which he was also for many years a proprietor. He devoted much of his time to historical study, and published, in addition to pamphlets and magazine articles, a History of Charlestown (1848); History of the Siege of Boston (1849); Life and Times of Gen. Joseph Warren (1865); and The Rise of the Republic of the United States (1871), his most important work.