Background
Liggett, Walter William was born on February 14, 1886 in Benson, Minnesota, United States. Son of Colonel William Madison and Mathilda Root (Brown) Liggett.
Liggett, Walter William was born on February 14, 1886 in Benson, Minnesota, United States. Son of Colonel William Madison and Mathilda Root (Brown) Liggett.
Graduate Central High School, Saint Paul. Student Minnesota Agricultural College, 1904-1905.
Newspaper reporter, 1905-1908. Managing editor Skagway Alaskan, 1908-1910. Public Pasco (Washington) Progress, 1911-1915.
Managing editor Fargo (North Dakota) Courier-News, 1917-1918, New York Call, 1922.
Worked on New York Times, Post, News and Sun, 1923-1925. Became free lance writer, 1925.
Editor Plain Talk, 1930. Deputy commissioner of immigration, State of North Dakota, 1919.
Author: The Frozen Frontier, 1926.
The River Riders, 1927. Pioneers of Justice, 1930. The Rise of Herbert Hoover, 1932.
Editor public Austin (Minnesota) American and Rochester (Minnesota) American.
Home: Rochester, Minnesota
Married Normal J. Ask, 1909. Married second, Edith Fleisher, 1922. Children: William Wallace, Marda Molyneux.