S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

Born in New York in 1876, S. Miles Bouton built a long career as a journalist, author, and lecturer. Archival and bibliographic records describe him as Stephen Miles Bouton and show that he worked for the Associated Press, first in Berlin and later in Stockholm, before writing and speaking extensively about European politics and society.

Bouton reported from Europe during some of the continent's most turbulent years. Records of his papers note that he was with the German army on various fronts during World War I, spent time in Petrograd in 1917, and was among the first correspondents to reenter Berlin after the 1918 armistice. Those experiences shaped his best-known book, And the Kaiser Abdicates, a contemporary account of the German Revolution and the end of the German Empire.

He continued covering Germany and European affairs into the interwar years, and later worked as an editorial writer for The Post-Journal in Jamestown, New York. He died in 1963, leaving behind books, articles, speeches, and papers that reflect a lifetime spent explaining international upheaval to American readers.