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Davis (OSCAR KING an American)

OSCAR KING, an American journalist, born in Baldwinsville, N. Y., in 1866. He graduated from Colgate University in 1888. He served as special correspondent on the New York "Sun" and other papers during the Spanish- American War and the Philippine Insurrection. He also served as correspondent in the Boxer troubles in China in 1900 and in the Russo-Japanese War. He was secretary of the Progressive National Committee in 1912. He wrote "Our Conquests in the Pacific"; "Dewey's Capture of Manila"; "The Storm Birds," etc.