Francis Channing Woodworth (1812 – June 5, 1859) was a printer, vicar and a writer.
He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, the nephew of Samuel Woodworth,[1] and began his career as a printer.
[2] Thereafter he became a writer of juvenile literature,[3] sometimes using pseudonym Theodore Tinker.
[3] He was editor of a magazine called The Youth's Cabinet, which his brother D. Austin Woodworth published.
[4] Francis died while sailing to New York from Savannah, Georgia.