Born: 13-Mar-1872
Birthplace: Wiesbaden, Germany
Died: 1-Oct-1949
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Some Newspapers and Newspaper-Men

Father: Henry Villard (journalist and businessman, b. 10-Apr-1835, d. 12-Nov-1900)
Mother: Fanny Garrison
Wife: Julia Sandford (d. 1962)
Daughter: Dorothy Villard Hammond
Son: Henry Hilgard Villard
Son: Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. (b. 1916, d. 2004)

    University: BA, Harvard University (1893)

    Heart Attack 1944

Author of books:
John Brown, 1800-1859: A Biography Fifty Years After (1910, biography)
Germany Embattled: An American Interpretation (1915, international affairs)
Some Newspapers and Newspaper-Men (1923, media studies)
Prophets: True and False (1928, biography)
The German Phoenix: The Story of the Republic (1933, history)
Our Military Chaos: The Truth About Defense (1939, politics)
Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor (1939, memoir)
The Disappearing Daily: Chapters in American Newspaper Evolution (1944, media studies)
Free Trade, Free World (1947, international affairs)

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