Difference between revisions of "Frederick Santee"

Santee was born on 17 September 1906 in the rural Pennsylvania town of Wapwallopen, the only child of Dr. Charles LaMotte Santee, and grandson of Dr. Ephraim A. Santee. Both his father and grandfather were practicing physicians.

Frederick was able to read English and German at age three and at the age of eight, wrote a translation of Caesar's ''Gallic War'' from the original Latin, which hd had taught himself by studying his grandfather's old Latin books. As a youth, he excelled at baseball, with a classmate claiming he was a "budding 'Babe' Ruth, whose heavy hitting had won more than one game for his team." Santee later claimed he tried very hard to be good at sports in the hopes of attracting girls.