Category:Shelton, Forrest C./Librettist

• Detailed biography: None given

Born in Iowa. Was a publisher who lived and worked in Portsmouth, N.H. in 1910. Worked in Denver, Colo., where he was a printer (Union Ptg & Pub Co) in 1917. Moved to Washington, D.C., where he lived from approx. 1917 to sometime in the 1920s and worked in the Government Printing Office. Identified himself as a farmer in the 1930 census and as an insurance agent in a 1933 directory, living in Arvada, a suburb of Denver. After his last wife, Libbie D. Smith died in 1938, he was committed to the Colorado State Hospital for the Insane (now the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo). Buried at Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Colo.