Newspaper editor and columnist Edward Wolf Kilman was born at Ennis, Texas in 1896. He was educated in Houston and attended Sam Houston Normal Institute in Huntsville, Texas. He joined the Houston Post-Dispatch in 1925 first as a correspondent and eventually rose to editor and editor emeritus of the editorial page in 1962. During this time period he wrote articles and books on the European theater of World War I, Britain's experiment in socialism and Texas history, folklore and politics including works on Hugh Roy Cullen, and the Karankawa Indians. With Louis Wiltz Kemp, he wrote Texas Musketeers, and The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign . Kilman and his wife Alice had one daughter and two grandchildren. Kilman died on June 8, 1969.
From the guide to the Ed Kilman collection MC120., 1861-1970, (Bulk: 1861-1910), (Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library, )
