Frank Hayward Severance (November 28, 1856 – January 26, 1931) was an American historian.
When he was five years old, his parents moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he grew up and learned printing.
After a year in Knox College, he went to Cornell University and graduated in 1879.
[1] He was city editor and general utility man on the Erie Gazette for two years and joined the Buffalo Express staff in 1881.
[2][3][4] He was elected president of the New York State Historical Association in 1924.