Carroll b. colby biography

Carroll Burleigh Colby (September 7, 1904 – October 31, 1977) was an.
Carroll Burleigh Colby was an American writer, primarily of nonfiction children's books.
Legal name: Colby, Carroll Burleigh ; Birthdate: 1904-09-07 ; Date of death: 1977-10-31 ; Burial location: Mountainview Cemetery, Claremont, New Hampshire, USA.

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Charles Carroll Colby

Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician

Charles Carroll Colby, PC (December 10, 1827 – January 10, 1907) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician.^[1]

He was born in Derby, Vermont in 1827,^[1] the son of Moses French Colby, and came to Stanstead, Quebec with his family in 1832. He studied at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He studied law, was called to the Quebec bar in 1855 and entered practice at Stanstead. In 1858, he married Harriet Child.^[2] Colby was elected as a Liberal-Conservative MP in the House of Commons of Canada in 1867 representing Stanstead and remained in parliament until his defeat in 1891. He served as President of the Privy Council under Sir John A. Macdonald from 1889 to 1891 and was previously Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons.^[1] Colby supported the introduction of tariffs to reciprocate against those imposed by the United States.^[2] He was a trustee of Stanstead College and a director for several railway companies

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C. B. Colby

C. B. Colby (born Carroll Burleigh Colby, September 7, 1904; died October 31, 1977) was a prolific children's book writer of mostly non-fiction works. He wrote approximately 93 books that were widely circulated in public and school libraries in the United States.

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Strangely Enough, (1963)

Colby, C.B. (1963). Strangely Enough. Publisher: Scholastic Magazines, Inc.ISBN 0-590-03123-6.

When thoroughly reliable people encounter ghosts, their stories are difficult to explain away.

World's Best "True" Ghost Stories, (1988)

Colby, C.B. (1988). World's Best "True" Ghost Stories. Publisher: Sterling Publish, Co., Inc. ISBN 0-8069-6898-2.

A good yarn, an offbeat tale, a bloodcurdling ghost story -- they need no explanation or excuse for the telling!

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Carroll Burleigh "C. B." Colby was born September 7, 1904 in Claremont, New Hampshire. His father, Melvin Forrest Colby, was born in 1871 in NH. His mother, Stella Adella Whitcomb, was born in 1866 in Vermont. His parents married in 1900 and had children two children, Elinore (b.1902) and Carroll (b.1904). The family lived at 137 Pleasant Street in Claremont. The father was foreman at a machine shop.

C. B. Colby attended public school in Claremont, where in June of 1922 he graduated from Stevens High School.

In September of 1922 he began to attend the School of Practical Art in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied to be a commercial illustrator and cartoonist.

In June of 1925 he completed that school's three-year course of study and received a certificate of completion.

That summer he traveled by steam ship to Puerto Rico to begin his career as a commercial artist.

When his savings were exhausted he joined the U. S. Customs Service as a Coast Guard seaman to combat rum-runners. According to the artist, "We were rather fruitlessly engaged in trying to keep P