Thomas (Tom) Goddard Frothingham, Jr., was born in Charlestown, Mass., July 9, 1865. Fond of horses all during his life, he drew pictures of race horses in the margins of a copy of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar that was one of his textbooks at the Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in 1883. He attended Tufts College (now Tufts University). From 1886 to 1888, he lived with his brother Richard on a ranch near Ellsworth, Kansas, where he raised race horses, had a race track built near their house, and entered a bay mare named "Surprise" in several horse races, August-October 1887. On May 1, 1888, he signed a page in an autograph book belonging to Eleanor (Nell) Felton Whiting, filling up the opposite page with pencil drawings of horses; on December 30, 1903, he married her. Why they waited so long to get married is a mystery. They had one child, Eleanor Frothingham (1907-1983), who married Austin Smith in the early 1930s. Eleanor and Austin had no children. In later life, painting in oils was one of Thomas’s hobbies. He especially liked to paint horses; and I own one of his horse paintings. Because of his expert knowledge of horses, he was commissioned as a captain in the Army during World War I, serving at Camp Pike (now called Camp Robinson), Arkansas, in the Army’s Remount Service (purchasing horses and mules for Army use). Thomas had a lifelong interest in the Army and Navy: in Charlestown, he grew up in sight of the Bunker Hill battlefield; and the Charlestown Navy Yard, later called the Boston Naval Shipyard, was located nearby. After World War I, he became a military and naval historian. He wrote five volumes on the military and naval history of World War I that were published in the 1920s; in 1930, his biography of George Washington as a military leader, Washington: Commander in Chief, was published. There are entries on Thomas in Who's Who in America, 1930s and early 1940s volumes. He died in Boston, March 17, 1945.