William Dinwiddie Photographs

William Dinwiddie was born in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 23, 1867. He spent much of his childhood in the Midwest and became an assistant electrician at the National Museum at the age of 14. He took some courses at Columbian University between 1881 and 1883, when he began working as an inspector of customs in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 1886, Dinwiddie became an ethnographer and assistant archaeologist at the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, D.C. He left this career for journalism in 1895. Dinwiddie worked primarily as a war correspondent and photographer, covering the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boer War, and the Russo-Japanese War. He also served as a Provincial Governor in the Philippines during the first years of American occupation, worked as the Sunday editor for the New York Times (1900-1901) and the New York World, and authored several books, including War Sketches in Truth. William Dinwiddie died in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1934.

Dinwiddie was married three times: first to Mary Elizabeth Towers, second to Caroline Brooke (1862-1928) and third to Alice Brooke (1886-1961). He had two children by his first wife, Dorothy (1892-) and Redfield Towers (1893-1969).