Frank A. Flower

[1][2] Flower's journalism career included being a traveling correspondent for Fredonia, New York Advertiser.

[6] In 1895, Flower was the Executive Secretary for the International Deep Waterways Association, championing the improvement of cargo ship traffic from the Great Lakes with New York City.

"[7][8] Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute wrote to Flower in 1890 about how much it would cost to establish a school modeled after Tuskegee Institute in Liberia noting that several students from Liberia were at the existing school in Alabama.

[9] Flower was the civilian attaché with the U.S. Commission to Liberia in 1909, appointed by Secretary of State P. C. Knox because he would "be able to supply considerable information and perhaps a few suggestions, based upon his special study of African affairs".

[11] During a follow-up trip in 1910 to Liberia for the U.S. to research border issues, Flower died in October.