Whitelock, William Wallace, 1869-1940

Biographical Note: William Wallace Whitelock was a poet and author.

He was born in 1869, educated at the Pennsylvania Military College, received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, 1890, and his Ph. D., Univ. of Munich, 1893. He published children's poetry and serious verse in the leading magazines and newspapers of the United States, much of which was later included in anthologies. Whitelock served on the "Gloucester" at the Battle of Santiago. He combined his personal writing career with a journalistic career and served as foreign correspondent of the literary section of the "New York Times." Whitelock died in 1939.