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Daniel Doane Bidwell
1865–1937
A globe-trotting journalist and historian, he wrote with the energy of someone who had seen the world up close. His books range from vivid travel writing to detailed accounts of Connecticut’s military past.
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A History of the Second Division Naval Militia Connecticut National Guard
by Daniel Doane Bidwell
About the author
Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, Daniel Doane Bidwell was an American writer and journalist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Records and library catalogs connect him with books including As Far as the East Is from the West and A History of the Second Division, Naval Militia, Connecticut National Guard, showing a career that moved between travel narrative and military history.
Biographical references also describe him as a Yale graduate and a journalist associated with the New York Ledger. He was remembered for extensive travel, including around-the-world journeys, which helps explain the firsthand, outward-looking tone of his writing.
Bidwell died in 1937. Although some sources disagree on whether he was born in 1865 or 1866, the broad outline is clear: he was a Connecticut-born author whose work captured both faraway travel and the local history of service and war.