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Davis, Richard Harding 1864-1916

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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING 1864-1916

War correspondent

Dashing.

When World War I erupted in 1914, Richard Harding Davis was America's preeminent war correspondent. The son of an editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the well-known writer Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis, Richard went to Lehigh University where he became a star half-back but neglected his studies. Asked to leave, he became a journalist. He had covered Cuban attempts to gain independence from Spain for two years before the United States intervened in 1898. His articles for the Hearst press, including the graphic ...

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