Omar Hite

Background

Hite, Omar was born on January 11, 1890 in Smithton, West Virginia, United States. Son of Review Raymond M. and Mary S. (Cochran) Hite.

Education

Graduate high school, 1907. Student Campbell College, Holton, Kansas, 3 years. Bachelor of Arts, University of Kansas, 1913.

Career

Member of the editorial staff, Fort Worth (Texas) Record, fall of 1913. Telegraph editor Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1914-1915. Editorial staff Saint Louis Republic, 1915-1917.

With Saint Louis Star, 1917.

Editorial staff and assistant day city editor, New York Herald, 1917-1920. Associate editor Christian Herald, 1920-1925, editor, 1925-1928.

Member editorial staff New York Times from 1929.

Achievements

• Omar Hite has been listed as a noteworthy newspaper manitoba by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of the editorial staff, Fort Worth (Texas) Record, fall of 1913. Member editorial staff New York Times from 1929. Served as Second lieutenant infantry, Camp Pike and Camp Funston, World War I.

Connections

Married June R. Barker, July 19, 1919. Children: Howard Omar, Lois Elizabeth (Mistress Hessel East. Yntema, Junior.