Background
Wilcox, Grafton Stiles was born on August 2, 1879 in Griggsville, Illinois, United States. Son of Seth Morrell and Cornelia C. (Cokerly) Wilcox.
Wilcox, Grafton Stiles was born on August 2, 1879 in Griggsville, Illinois, United States. Son of Seth Morrell and Cornelia C. (Cokerly) Wilcox.
Educational public schools.
Reporter and city editor Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois, 1898-1899. Successively reporter Chicago Chronicle, Chicago Record Herald, Associated Press (Chicago) to 1909, Associated Press (Washington, District of Columbia), and chief of Capitol staff same, 1910-1917. With Washington Bureau, Chicago Tribune, 1917-1924, Washington Bureau, New York Herald Tribune, 1924-1926.
Assistant managing editor New York Herald Tribune, 1926-1931, managing editor October 1931-February 1941.
Clubs: Gridiron, National Press (ex-president).
Married Carey C. Shipley, January 1910.