Frank N. Westcott

He wrote several books on Catholicism, as well as two novels, Hepsey Burke and Dabney Todd.

[2] His father, Amos Westcott, was an influential professor, dentist, dental college founder, and politician who served as an alderman and mayor of Syracuse.

[3] Frank N.Westcott became an ordained minister and served at the St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Skaneateles, New York.

[4] His brother Edward Noyes Westcott was a banker and writer who authored the popular novel David Harum.

Struggling with sleeplessness, nervous trouble, and a broken arm, Frank Westcott committed suicide while in hospital in 1915.