Thomas Francis (Frank) Beard (1842–1905)

American artist, cartoonist, and educator. Special cartoonist with the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Worked as a comic illustrator in New York from 1867. Pioneered illustrated lectures or "chalk talks", and from 1874 lectured regularly for the religious, cultural, and recreational Chautauqua movement. Joined a Republican paper, the Judge, in 1881; editor, 1884. Professor of aesthetics and painting, Syracuse University, 1881–4. Editor of a Methodist weekly, Ram’s Horn, 1890.