William Dinwiddie
William Dinwiddie (August 23, 1867 – June 17, 1934) was an American journalist, war photographer, writer and colonial administrator in the Philippines. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia.[1]
Early life
[edit]Dinwiddie took some courses at Columbia University (1881–1883); and then he worked as a customs inspector in Corpus Christi, Texas (1883–1886). He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1886–1895); and then he decided to change careers, becoming a foreign correspondent and photographer.[2]
War correspondent
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Dinwiddie was a journalist and a war photographer for Harper's Weekly during the Spanish–American War,[1] assigned to report and photograph the American campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico.[2]
He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).[3]
Personal life
[edit]William Dinwiddie was twice married. In 1891 he married Mary E Towers, daughter of Chatham Moore Towers and Sallie Lewis Nuckolls. They were the parents of two children: Dorothy and Redfield Towers Dinwiddie. In 1901 he married Caroline Miller Brooke, daughter of William S Brooke and Mary Shoemaker Hallowell.
Selected works
[edit]- War Sketches in Truth[2]
- Our New Possessions[2]
- The War in the Philippines[2]
- The War in South Africa[2]
- Puerto Rico: Its Conditions & Possibilities[2]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Haverstock, Nathan A. (1996). Fifty Years at the Front: The Life of War Correspondent Frederick Palmer. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-040-3; OCLC 33041795
- Leonard, John William and Albert Nelson Marquis. (1899). Who's who in America. Chicago: A. N. Marquis. OCLC 35908327
- Roth, Mitchel P. and James Stuart Olson. (1997). Historical Dictionary of War Journalism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-29171-5
- The Charleston Gazette. Jun 18, 1934. Charleston, West Virginia. Page 2, column 3. "William Dinwiddie, Newspaperman, Dies"
- 1867 births
- 1934 deaths
- American war photographers
- War correspondents of the Russo-Japanese War
- 19th-century American journalists
- 19th-century American male writers
- 19th-century American photographers
- 20th-century American journalists
- American male journalists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American photographers
- New York Herald people
- United States Customs Service personnel
- Columbia University alumni
- Writers from Charlottesville, Virginia
- Journalists from Virginia
- Photographers from Virginia