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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.
Early life
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.
War correspondent
Dinwiddie was a journalist and a war photographer for Harper's Weekly during the Spanish–American War, assigned to report and photograph the American campaigns in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He was a war correspondent for the New York Herald during the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).
Personal life
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
War Sketches in Truth
Our New Possessions
The War in the Philippines
The War in South Africa
Puerto Rico: Its Conditions & Possibilities
Notes
References
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"
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