S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

Born in 1876, S. Miles Bouton—Stephen Miles Bouton—was an American journalist, author, and lecturer whose papers later preserved memoirs, dispatches, newspaper columns, speeches, and correspondence from a long career. Archival records connect his work especially to the German Revolution of 1918, German politics and society from World War I to World War II, interwar European politics, and civil-liberties questions in the United States.

He is best remembered for And the Kaiser Abdicates, a book based on the dramatic political changes in Germany from November 1918 into 1919. The surviving archival descriptions suggest a writer deeply engaged with the upheavals of his time, blending reporting, interpretation, and public speaking.

Bouton died in 1963. Contemporary memorial material described him as a well-known newsman whose career as a foreign correspondent, author, and lecturer stretched across more than fifty years.