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Frank Shay

was born in East Orange, New Jersey,

April 8, 1888
(died January 14, 1954)

Sailor, chantey collector, editor of Iron men & wooden ships : deep sea chanties, 1924; also of My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions and of More Pious Friends in 1927 --- sergeant in World War I, book merchant, author, auctioneer, lumberjack; also proprietor of the Frank Shay's Travelling Bookshop.

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