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WHITELAW
REID, a son of Robert Charlton and Marian (Ronalds)
Reid, one of the greatest of American journalists and
diplomatists, was born near Cedarville, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1837.
He received his bachelor degree at Miami University in 1856
and his master degree at the same school three years later.
He also had a large number of Honorary degrees conferred on
him later in life, such universities as Princeton, Yale,
Cambridge (England), St. Andrews (Scotland), Oxford
(England) and Manchester (England) doing him this honor.
His first newspaper experience was gained on the
Xenia News, of which paper he was editor in 1858-1859.
From 1860 to 1868 he was on the staff of the Cincinnati
Gazette, first as legislative correspondent (1860-1861),
later as war correspondent (1861-1862), and still later as
Washington correspondent (1862-1868). In 1868 he went
on the staff of the New York Tribune and four years
later he became chief proprietor and editor of the paper,
continuing as such until 1905. To sum up his
achievements from 1872 until his death in 1914 would be to
set forth a long and distinguished list of public positions
which he held. Among these may be mentioned in the
following: United States minister to France,
1889-1892; Republican nominee for vice-president of United
States, 1892; special ambassador of the United States to
Queen Victoria's jubilee, 1897; member of peace commission
in Paris, 1898; special ambassador to England for coronation
of King Edward, 1902; United States ambassador to England
from 1905 until his death. He was the author of nearly
a score of volumes of wide character, ranging from "Ohio in
the Civil War" and "Newspaper Tendencies" to "Problems of
Expansion" and "How America Faced Its Educational Problems."
He married Elizabeth Mills, daughter of D. O.
Mills, on April 26, 1881.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
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