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American journalist (1864–1901)

Rounsevelle Wildman (March 19, 1864, in Batavia, New York – February 22, 1901) was an American journalist, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and the owner and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Overland Monthly from 1894 to 1897.^[1]

Biography

His maternal grandfather, Colonel J.

P. Rounsevelle, was a leading politician and financier in the state of New York.^[2] After education in Lima, New York at Genessee Wesleyan Seminary^[3] (of which his father was the president), Rounsevelle Wildman graduated from Syracuse University, where he studied journalism.^[1] After experience on newspapers in New York City, Chicago, and Kansas City,^[2] he became in 1885 a reporter for the Idaho Statesman in Boise.^[1] In Boise, he was an advocate for the Republican Party and gained a literary reputation for his contributions published by magazines in the eastern U