Background
Williams, Wythe was born on September 18, 1881 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Wilbur Garrettson and Caroline (Wythe) Williams.
Williams, Wythe was born on September 18, 1881 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Wilbur Garrettson and Caroline (Wythe) Williams.
Student Ohio Wesleyan University, 1898-1900.
Reporter Minneapolis Tribune, 1905, Milwaukee Sentinel, 1906, Chicago Examiner and Daily News, 1907-1908, New York World, 1909, London correspondent, 1910-1912, New York Times, 1912-1913, trans to Paris, 1913, and war correspondent Times, 1914-1917. Special correspondent Collier’s Weekly, in Europe, 1918, London Daily Mail, at Berlin, 1919. Returned to the United States as director propaganda of America Committee for Devasted France.
Retrned to Europe as Paris correspondent Public Ledger. Correspondent on European politics, for Staurday Evening Post, 1915-1926. Special correspondent New York Times, at League of Nations, 1927-1928, chief correspondent of Berlin Bureau, same, 1929.
Chief correspondent Hearst newspapers and Universal Service, London, 1931. Editor and general manager, Greenwich Time, 1937-1940. Political commentator, WOR-Mutual Broadcasting System, 1940-1941.
Special assistant to board director, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1945-1946. With American Ambulance, Paris, France, 1914. Correspondent with Allied armies throughout World War I.
Member Sigma Chi, National Institute Social Sciences. Clubs: Players, Dutch Treat, Lotos, Advertising (New York).
Married Viola Irwin, March 22, 1913. Children: Wilbur M., David Irwin, Ian Wythe.