- Creighton and Homer, 2 sons who died in infancy; and daughter, Carol
- Humorist, author and screenwriter.
- Son of American pioneers who came West in a covered wagon.
- Would like to say he was born the same year they built the Brooklyn Bridge.
- "Like all farm boys" he once wrote "he hated physical labor and loved good victuals".
- As a farm boy he would study his vest-pocket dictionary between chores and eventually began submitting articles to farm journals.
- At the University of Missouri he claimed to be the first student at the first school of journalism in the world.
- Began writing magazine articles for Butterick Publications (then edited by Theodore Dreiser) after failing English in his senior year of college.
- Said after the publication of his first novel that he was paid in postage stamps.
- Became stranded in India at the outbreak of World War One while on an around-the-world tour he was making on behalf of several American magazines. Unable to reach his sponsors, a friend (Mae Belle Savelle) was finally able to cable funds for his return. The following year (1915) they were married.
- Gave himself the title "Two Gun Croy, The Law West of 125th Street".
- Was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.
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