Background
Hereford, William Richard was born on February 2, 1871 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of Alfred P. and Elizabeth (Powell) Hereford.
Hereford, William Richard was born on February 2, 1871 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of Alfred P. and Elizabeth (Powell) Hereford.
Student Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, and Harvard Law School, 1892-1893.
Admitted to bar at Kansas City, 1893. Began newspaper work on Kansas City Times, 1890. On editorial staff New York Recorder, 1895.
Secretary to American minister to Switzerland.
1895-1897; on editorial staff New York Journal, 1897-1902, New York Herald, 1902-1904. Editor European edit
New York Herald, 1904-1907. Paris correspondent New York World, November, 1908-1913.
Made tour of South. America with Robert Bacon in interests of Carnegie Foundation of International Peace, 1913.
Executive secretary American Committee of America Ambulance Hospital, Paris, and American Ambulance Field Service, 1914-1917. Major and deputy commissioner American Red Cross Commission in Italy, December 1917-March 1919. Director department publications League of Red Cross Societies, headquarters Geneva, Switzerland, May 1919.
Now director foreign information service, Bankers Trust Company, Paris.
Married Frances Reynolds, December 26, 1899.