Francis Channing Woodworth (1812 – June 5, 1859) was a printer, vicar and a writer. He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, the nephew of Samuel Woodworth,[1] and began his career as a printer. After eight years he became a preacher, but quit because of health issues.[2] Thereafter he became a writer of juvenile literature,[3] sometimes using pseudonym Theodore Tinker.[3] He was editor of a magazine called The Youth's Cabinet, which his brother D. Austin Woodworth published.[4] Francis died while sailing to New York from Savannah, Georgia Less