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Walter Hines Page (August 15, 1855 – December 21, 1918) was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War I. He founded the ''State Chronicle'' newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina, and worked with other leaders to gain legislative approval for what is now known as North Carolina State University, established as a land-grant college in 1885. He worked on several newspapers, including the ''New York World'' and ''Evening Post''. He was the editor of ''The Atlantic Monthly'' for several years and also literary adviser to Houghton Mifflin. For more than a decade beginning in 1900, he was a partner of Doubleday, Page & Company, a major book publisher in New York City. ==Biography== Born in Cary, North Carolina to father Allison Francis "Frank" Page and his wife, Catherine Frances Raboteau. His father built the Page-Walker Hotel about 1868. Walter was educated at Trinity College (Duke University), then at Randolph-Macon College and Johns Hopkins University. His studies complete, he taught for a time in Louisville, Kentucky. On November 15, 1880, Page married Willa Alice Wilson. They had three sons and a daughter. Page began his journalism career as a writer and then editor at the St. Joseph ''Gazette'' in Missouri. (The St. Joseph ''Gazette'' published in that town from 1845 until June 30, 1888, when its morning position was taken over by its sister paper, the St. Joseph ''News-Press.'') After a short time at the ''Gazette'', in 1881 Page resigned to travel through the South, having arranged to contribute letters on southern sociological conditions to the New York ''World'', the ''Springfield Republican'' of Massachusetts, and the ''Boston Post''. He intended these letters to educate both the North and the South in a fuller understanding of their mutual dependence. In 1882, he joined the editorial staff of the New York ''World;'' among his major work was a series of articles on Mormonism, the result of personal investigation in Utah.〔 Later in 1882, Page went to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he founded the ''State Chronicle''.〔 Two years later, he was a founding member of the Watauga Club, along with Arthur Winslow and William Joseph Peele. Together, they petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly early in 1885 to create an institution for industrial education for "wood-work, mining, metallurgy, practical agriculture" and similar fields; establishing what is now North Carolina State University, a land-grant college, which could receive federal funds. Page returned to New York in 1883 and for four years was on the staff of the ''Evening Post''. From 1887 to 1895, he was manager and, after 1890, editor of ''The Forum'', a monthly magazine. From 1895 to 1900, he was literary adviser to Houghton, Mifflin and Company, and for most of the same period editor of ''The Atlantic Monthly'' (1896–99).〔 From 1900 to 1913, Page was partner and vice president of Doubleday, Page & Co.; when he joined Frank Nelson Doubleday as a partner, the company's name was changed to include his. He also was editor of ''World's Work'' magazine. Doubleday, Page & Co. became one of the great book publishing companies of the 20th century. The company sometimes publishes under the name "Country Life Press" in Garden City, New York, where Page resided in the years prior to World War I. Among the great writers it published in its early years was Rudyard Kipling.〔(), Poetry Foundation〕 In 1986, it was acquired by Bertelsmann AG. Page believed that a free and open education was fundamental to democracy. In 1902, he published ''The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths,'' which emphasized that. He felt that nothing (class, economic means, race, or religion) should be a barrier to education. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Hines Page」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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