Background
Beymer, William Gilmore was born on August 14, 1881 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hervey Winthrop and Mary H. (Nixon) Beymer.
Beymer, William Gilmore was born on August 14, 1881 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Hervey Winthrop and Mary H. (Nixon) Beymer.
Educational public schools, Allegheny and Parnassus, Pennsylvania. Student Chambersburg (Pennsylvania) Academy, 1897-1898, Stanford University, 1903-1905, New York School of Art (William M. Chase School), 1905-1907.
Commander George Cook, United States Navy Reserve), Marybel (Mistress Malcolm Hall). As artist, exhibited at National Academy of Design and at Kensignton Garden, London, England., 1906-1907. Staff writer, especially Civil War articles and period fiction, Harper’s Magazine, 1909-1911.
Lecturer on short story and scenairo writing, University of California extension division, Los Angeles, 1920-1925.
City editor Los Angeles bureau Associated Press, 1928. Technical adviser for American historical and period pictures to major motion picture studios, 1933-1942.
Instructor Army Air Force Technology Training School (civilian contract school), 1943. Lockheed P-38 assembly line, 1943-1944.
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Married Jean M. Hayward, June 18, 1907. Children: Jean Gilmore (wife of Lieutenant.