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WILLARD DICKER- MAN, an American financier and public official, born in Oswego, N. Y., in 1880.
He was educated at Bordentown (N. J.) Military Institute and at Cornell University, and in 1911 married Dorothy Payne Whitney, the daughter of the late W. C. Whitney (q. v.). From 1902 to 1904 he was in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service; from 1904 to 1905 a newspaper correspondent in Korea, Japan, and Manchuria; in 1905 consul-general at Seoul; in 1906 private secretary of the American Minister to Cuba; from 1906 to 1908 consul-general at Mukden; and from November, 1908, to June, 1909, acting chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State, Washington, D. C. In 1909 he went to China as the representative of a group of American bankers, and remained there until 1914. Upon his return he was connected for a short time with J. P. Morgan & Company, then studied international law at Columbia and became a vice-president of the American International Corporation. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, president of the Asiatic Associatilon and a trustee of Cornell University. During the World War he served in the Adjutant General's Department. He died in 1918.