COLCORD, LINCOLN ROSS

6. at sea. Graduated from the high school at Sears port, Me. 1900. In 1900 entered the University of Maine where he studied intermittently until 1906, when after completing half of the junior term he finally left. His family were seafarers extending back for five generations and until he was 14 years of age was at sea with his father making voyages to China and trading on the d|China Sea. In 1906 he entered tho employ of the Bangor and A roos took railroad as a civil engineer in the Maine woods and remained in this position until 1909 in which year he began writing short stories. Among his works are: The Drifting Diamond, 1912; The Game of Life and Death, 1914; Vision of War, 1915, and An Instrument of the Gods, 1922. Was also staff correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Washington Bureau, 1917-18, and a ociate editor of The Nation from 1919-20.