Background
Mcpherson, William Lenhart was born on May 23, 1865 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Annie (Crawford) M.
Mcpherson, William Lenhart was born on May 23, 1865 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Edward and Annie (Crawford) M.
Bachelor of Arts, Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), 1883. Doctor of Letters, 1923. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1884, A.M., 1885.
On editorial staff, 1885-1889, attached to Washington bureau, 1889-1902, correspondent in Cuba, 1899, New York Tribune. Editorial writer Washington Times, 1902-1903, New York Tribune, since 1903. Editor The Tribune Almanac, since 1903.
American editor Whitaker’s American Almanac, 1913-1916. Military critic; writer of “Military Comment” in Tribune and other newspapers, April-November 1918. Translator of French and German short stories.
Author: Tales of Wartime France (translations of French war stories), 1918. The Vandal of Europe (translation of Doctor Wilhelm Mühlon’s diary), 1918. The Strategy of the Great War, 1919.
A Short History of the Great War, 1920. Translator of Germany After the Armistice, by Maurice Berger, 1920. Home: New York, New York.
Married Mistress; children: Janet Cuthbert, Jessie Middleton.