Henry Adams Bellows

Henry Adams Bellows (September 22, 1885 – December 29, 1939) was an American newspaper editor and radio executive who was an early member of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He is also known for his translation of the Poetic Edda for The American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Life and career Born in Portland, Maine, Bellows graduated from Harvard University in 1906, and then taught English as an assistant there for three years. He received his Ph.D. in 1910 for a dissertation in comparative literature entitled "The Relations between Prose and Metrical Composition in Old Norse Literature" and then became an assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of Minnesota.

From 1912 to 1919 he was managing editor of The Bellman, a Minneapolis literary magazine, vice president of the Bellman Company, and a director of the Miller Publishing Company; He also worked for the Minnesota Orchestra, in 1921–23 was music critic for the Minneapolis Daily News, and in 1925 was the manager of WCCO, one of the top radio stations in the country.

Personal life He married Mary Sanger, the daughter of Harvard chemistry professor Charles Robert Sanger, in 1911; they had two children. he married a second time in 1936 to Alice Eels. and Peter Abélard's Historia Calamitatum. The range of his four other books indicates the breadth of his interests: A Treatise on Riot Duty for National Guards, Highland Light, and Other Poems and A Short History of Flour Milling.