Walter Littlefield

Background

Littlefield, Walter was born on March 17, 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Littlefield.

Education

Student Harvard, 1888-1893, Bachelor of Arts, 1920, as of 1892. Taught French and ancient history, Chauncy Hall, Boston, 1890-1892.

Career

Pagani, of Borgomanero, Italy, October 30, 1893 (died May 24, 1945). Children—Walter Joseph, Henry Mario. Associate editor Norwich (Connecticut) Bulletin, 1888.

With New York World and New York Tribune, 1894-1897. In editorial department of New York Times since 1897, foreign editor emeritus since 1932 (retired, November, 1942). American correspondent Le Siècle, Paris, and has contributed to L’Évenement, Paris.

Literary correspondent Chicago Record-Herald, 1903-1913. An authority on the Dreyfus case. Was first to establish identity of Lieutenant Colonel du Paty de Clam as the author of the article in L’Éclair, September 14, 1896, narrating the circumstances of Dreyfus’ arrest and divulging the use of secret evidence at his first trial.

Furnished evidence at the Camorra trial, Viterbo. Italy, showing connection between the Camorra of Naples and the Mano Nera of New York. Advanced proofs to the French Ministry of Fine Arts that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was not stolen from the Louvre in August 1911, but concealed by an official restorer because injured.

One of the 500 signers of the memorial to the Allies, January 1915.

Membership

Member La Società Dantesca (Florence), La Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (Paris), Academy Sciences and Letters (Genoa), Dante League of America, Friends of Roumania Society.

Connections

Married Luigina Amalia, d. Children: Walter Joseph, Henry Mario.

Father:

Joshua Littlefield

Mother:

Elizabeth (Mitchell) Littlefield

Spouse:

Luigina Amalia

child:

Henry Mario Littlefield

child:

Walter Joseph Littlefield