Background
Barrows, Nathaniel Albert was born on March 14, 1905 in Rochester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Hiram and Lucy (Dunham) Barrows.
Barrows, Nathaniel Albert was born on March 14, 1905 in Rochester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Hiram and Lucy (Dunham) Barrows.
Graduate Boston English High School, 1923. Student Harvard, 1929-1931.
1 son, Richard Nathaniel Whittier. Reporter, rewrite man, feature writer, Latin American writer, Boston Globe, 1925-1941. Joined Chicago Daily News Foreign Service, December 1941, assigned to Northern Latin American and Caribbean, 1941-1942, Britain, 1942-1943, Sweden and Finland, 1943-1945.
Covered Potsdam Conference, Berlin, 1945.
Postwar foreign consultant in Holland, France, Germany, Britain, Scandanavia, Middle East. United Nations correspondent since January 1946.
Wounded by German dive-bombers at Finnish front in Lapland, 1944.
Member United Nations Correspondents Association (secretary 1948-1949). Indiana; Club: Overseas Press of America.
Married Dorothea Whittier, September 23, 1939.
