Claude H. Wetmore

Born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, on November 7, 1863, Claude Hazeltine Wetmore was an American author and editor. Reference sources describe him as the son of Captain Henry S. Wetmore and Marie Louise Wetmore, and note that he studied in public schools, at Western Reserve University, and at the École Polytechnique in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Wetmore spent many years traveling in South America and Europe, and that experience shows in his books. He wrote adventure fiction such as Incaland and, with Robert M. Yost, Sweepers of the Sea: The Story of a Strange Navy, a novel later noted by science-fiction reference works for its lost-world and speculative elements.

He also worked as a journalist and editor. Sources connect him with early muckraking through work done with Lincoln Steffens, and his nonfiction included The Battle Against Bribery, a book about reform and political corruption in Missouri. A Theodore Roosevelt Center record also shows him corresponding with Theodore Roosevelt while trying to complete a children's book on the American Navy. Wetmore died in Ohio on April 29, 1944.