Edwin Emerson (1869 - 1959)

Edwin A. Emerson, Jr. (23 January 1869 - 3 October 1959) was an American journalist and war correspondent. Born in Dresden, Germany, Emerson graduated from Harvard University in 1891. He worked as a correspondent for various periodicals. During the Spanish-American War, Emerson worked as a spy in Puerto Rico and joined the Rough Riders, serving as regimental clerk to Theodore Roosevelt. He covered the Russo-Japanese War and was taken prisoner by Japanese forces. In World War I, he wrote dispatches from the German side of the conflict. Emerson established the Society of American Friends of Germany in 1933, and, at one point, he met with Adolf Hitler.