Don Carlos Seitz (1862-1935) was an American newspaper manager and writer.
Born at Portage, Ohio, he graduated from the Liberal Institute at Norway, Maine in 1880. He served as Albany corresponden...view moreDon Carlos Seitz (1862-1935) was an American newspaper manager and writer.
Born at Portage, Ohio, he graduated from the Liberal Institute at Norway, Maine in 1880. He served as Albany correspondent (1887-1889) and as city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle (1889-1991) before becoming assistant publisher of the New York Recorder (1892-1893) and managing editor of the Brooklyn World (1893-1994). Thereafter he acted as advertising manager with the New York World from 1895-1897 and as paper’s business manager from 1898 onwards.
He also published a number of books, including Discoveries in Everyday Europe (1907); Writings by and about James McNeill Whistler (1910); Elba and Elsewhere (1910); Surface Japan (1911); Letters from Francis Parkman to E. G. Squier (1911); The Buccaneers (1912); Whistler Stories (1913); Braxton Bragg, General of the Confederacy (1924); Joseph Pulitzer; His Life and Letters (1924); Under the Black Flag: Exploits of the Most Notorious Pirates (1925); and The Great Island: Some observations in and about the Crown Colony of Newfoundland (1926).
Seitz died in Brooklyn, New York in 1935 and is buried in Falmouth, Cumberland County, Maine.view less