My topic this week is author Ted G. Wear, as suggested by Wayne Homren. My first hour ofresearch provided almost no results. Eventually I found a few good sources.

Ted G. Wear wrote three books on numismatic topics.

Wear was born in Joplin, Missouri, on September 23, 1902. His parents were Theodore GrahamWear (1865-1935) and Marie Price Dawson (1875-1954). They were divorced in 1909 ongrounds of abandonment and incompatibility. She had gone to California and told her husbandshe did not wish to return. In 1910, Ted Jr. was living with his mother and grandmother inTopeka, Kansas.

Wear attended Columbia University for two years and graduated from the University of Kansas.He began working as a reporter for The Topeka State Journal in 1925. He covered topics of thetheater, movies, business and the railroads. He was promoted to city editor in 1954.

He was married to Verna Anne McCue on August 28, 1930. The 1930 Census showed herworking in advertising for a dry goods store. I suspect they were both divorced and remarried.

Wear retired from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel and served with the New York SelectiveService system in the 1950's and into the 1960's. His draft card shows that he was 6' 1" tall andweighed 185 pounds. He worked in New York as a free-lance television writer and publicrelation writer.

He joined the ANA in May 1963 as member 49688 and promptly donated a copy of his book tothe library. The Numismatist (February 1964) carried a review of his 1963 book Coin Collectingin a Nutshell.

Perhaps this is why Ted G. Wear is not a well known numismatic author.

Wear promoted his book with interviews for newspapers and spoke to a local coin club.However, I found no references to him as a coin collector or an active club member.

He died in New York City in July of 1974. I did not find a published obituary.