George Forrester Williams (1837–December 31, 1920) was a soldier, military adviser and journalist who worked as managing editor of the New York Times from 1870 to 1873.[1]
George F. Williams | |
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| Born | 1837 |
| Died | December 31, 1920 |
| Occupation | Editor at The New York Times |
| Years active | 1870–1873 |
Williams was born in 1837 in Gibraltar to a military family. After living in the East Indies, West Indies and on the African Gold Coast, he arrived in New York City at age 13 following the death of his parents. He found work at the New York Times and stayed there until the start of the American Civil War. He joined the Union Army, rising from private to brevet major and was wounded at the battles of Malvern Hill and the Wilderness.
In the last year of the war, he served as a war correspondent for the Times. After the Confederate surrender, he traveled to Mexico to cover the ending of the Second French intervention in Mexico and attended the execution of Maximilian I of Mexico. He subsequently worked as a military adviser for Guatemala and Peru before returning to New York in 1870, where he was named managing editor of the New York Times.
After leaving the Times, he became managing editor of the New York Herald from 1875–1876 and later served in various capacities for other New York newspapers, including the World and Recorder. He published several books:
References
edit- ^ "Major G.F. Williams, Journalist, Is Dead" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. LXX, no. 22, 988. 1 January 1921. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ Williams, George Forrester (1882). Bullet and Shell: A Soldier's Romance. Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. p. 454.
- ^ Williams, George Forrester (1894). The Memorial War Book: As Drawn from Historical Records and Personal Narratives of the Men who Served in the Great Struggle. Lovell Brothers Company. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
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