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Willard Dickerman Straight was an American investment banker, publisher, reporter, Army Reserve officer, diplomat and by marriage, a member of the Whitney family.
Background
Willard was born on January 31, 1880 at Oswego, New York, United States. He was the son of Henry H. and Emma May (Dickerman) Straight, both of English stock. Henry Straight, an instructor in natural science at Oswego Normal School, and after 1883 in the Cook County Normal School at Normal Park, Ilinois, died in 1886 of tuberculosis. From 1887 to 1889 his widow taught in the Girls' Normal School in Tokyo, Japan. She returned to the United States in 1889 and died in 1890, also of tuberculosis. Willard and his sister Hazel were then adopted jointly by Dr. Elvire Rainier and Miss Laura Newkirk, of Oswego.
Education
Willard was educated in the Oswego public schools, the Bordentown (New Jersey) Military Institute, and Cornell University, where he studied architecture and was graduated in 1901, with the degree of B. Arch.
Career
In November of 1901, Straight went to China to take a post in the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. He remained in this service until the Russo-Japanese War, when he went to Korea (Chosen) as a correspondent for Reuter's News Service. There he was soon made vice-consul and secretary to the American minister to Seoul (Keijo). In 1906, he served for a few months as secretary to the American Legation in Cuba but in the same year he returned to the Orient as consul-general at Mukden (Moukden). From November 1908 to June 1909 he was acting chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State.
In 1909 he returned to the Orient as a representative, first of a group of American bankers, and then of a similar international group, interested in developing railways in Manchuria and the northern part of China proper. Through the political opposition of Russia and Japan, this scheme failed. Straight thereupon played an important part in the attempt at an international loan to the Chinese government by a consortium of bankers (see sketch of Jacob Henry Schiff). Shortly thereafter, the Chinese Revolution took place and, in 1912, Straight left the Orient forever.
On his return to New York, he planned to study law with the purpose of ultimately practising in the field of international law; but, in the meantime, he continued the association, as Far-Eastern expert, with J. P. Morgan & Company which had grown out of his work for the bankers in the Orient.
In 1915 he was persuaded to accept a post as third vice-president of the American International Corporation, formed to facilitate American participation in foreign developments in engineering, railroads, and industrial projects, and in public finance. In the previous year, he had signalized his interest in public affairs by making possible, in cooperation with his wife, the publication of a weekly journal, The New Republic.
He had previously been greatly attracted by the book, The Promise of American Life (1909), by Herbert D. Croly and had sought the acquaintance of the author. The idea of establishing the paper grew spontaneously out of one of their conversations, and Croly became its chief editor.
In 1915, Straight's keen interest in the Orient found a definite outlet in the creation of the monthly magazine first called the Journal of the American Asiatic Association and later, radically changed in form, called Asia.
Thereafter, he became a student in the staff college at Langres, France. At the beginning of June, he was placed in charge of liaison for the III Corps. He distinguished himself by preparing a liaison manual which was adopted almost in toto for the American Expeditionary Force.
He died in Paris on December 1, 1918, of influenza and pneumonia.
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Membership
He was a member of the American Asiatic Association, the American Manufacturers' Export Association. He was also elected to the Sphinx Head Society, membership in which was reserved for the most respected men of the senior class. During his life, he was a member of the Century Association and Knickerbocker Club.
Interests
Willard Straight was a man of varied talents. His many published drawings and sketches show his decided artistic ability. He also had unusual native gifts as a writer. He made remarkable progress in a short time in studies of Oriental languages, history, and politics.
Connections
On September 7, 1911, he had married Dorothy Whitney, daughter of William C. Whitney, the well-known Wall Street capitalist. Together, Willard and Dorothy had three children.