Background
Dreher, William Counts was born on May 29, 1856 in Lexington Company, South Carolina, United States. Son of John Jacob and Martha Elizabeth (Counts) Dreher.
Dreher, William Counts was born on May 29, 1856 in Lexington Company, South Carolina, United States. Son of John Jacob and Martha Elizabeth (Counts) Dreher.
Bachelor of Arts, Roanoke College, Virginia, 1878. Studied Yale, 1881-1883. Studied philosophy, langs. and literature, university of Leipzig, Strassburg and Berlin, 1885-1887.
Edited tariff reform matter for country newspapers, for New York Reform Club, 1890-1891. Same, Democratic National Committee, 1892. In the United States consular service, in Germany, 1893-1897.
In newspaper work at Berlin, 1897-1921, where was correspondent The Annalist and The Associated Press. On editorial staff New York Tribune, September 1917, and Berlin correspondent same, 1919-1921. Home: Amherst, Mass.
Married Georgia Chase, June 10, 1901. Children: William Chase, Henry Julius.