Matthew M. Colton

Matthew M. Colton was an American author remembered for a string of boys' adventure stories published in the early 1900s. The most visible surviving works linked to his name today are the Frank Armstrong books, including Frank Armstrong at Queens, Frank Armstrong's Vacation, Frank Armstrong's Second Term, Frank Armstrong, Drop Kicker, and Frank Armstrong at College.

The books center on school, athletics, competition, and camaraderie, and several modern library and ebook records classify them as juvenile fiction or sports stories. Frank Armstrong at Queens is presented as a boarding-school story, while Frank Armstrong at College follows the same spirited hero into college life at Yale, showing Colton's clear interest in energetic, youth-focused storytelling.

Reliable biographical details beyond his birth and death years are hard to confirm from the sources I found, so it is safest to view him primarily through his books. Even with that limited record, his work stands out as part of the classic American tradition of wholesome school and sports fiction for young readers.