Background
Walker, Harry Wilson was born on July 12, 1859 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Ralph and Frances (Wilson) Walker.
Walker, Harry Wilson was born on July 12, 1859 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Ralph and Frances (Wilson) Walker.
Student Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1876-1878, also under private tutor.
Began on staff Post-Dispatch, Saint Louis, 1879. With Chicago Herald, 1883-1884, New York World and New York Herald, 1884-1894. London correspondent New York Commercial Advertiser, 1894-1895.
Editor The New Yorker, 1900-1904.
Washington correspondent until 1913. Special agent Department of State, 1914.
Author: Trail of the Tammany Tiger, 1914. Ancestors of Woodrow Wilson, 1914.
Story of Colonel House, 1918.
Member personal staff of the chairman of the War Industries Board, 1918.
Married Nellie Gatchel, August 10, 1883 (died 1903). Married second, Estelle Edelin, October 20, 1904.