Walter Geer (August 19, 1857 - February 23, 1937) was an American author, particularly of books on Napoleon and the French Revolution.
He was born in 1857 in Williamstown, Berkshi...показать большеWalter Geer (August 19, 1857 - February 23, 1937) was an American author, particularly of books on Napoleon and the French Revolution.
He was born in 1857 in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, to Asahel Clarke Geer (1823-1902) and Helen August Danforth Geer (1828-1916). He married Mary Wiley Potter on September 26, 1883 in New York City. The couple had one son, Joseph White Geer (1892-1986).
Walter Geer turned to writing quite late in life, publishing no less than six books between 1919 and 1926, including the original Geer Genealogy in 1923.
He passed away in New York in 1937 and is buried at Westlawn Cemetery in his birth town of Williamstown, Massachusetts.показать меньше