Amédée Baillot de Guerville

[4] His father, born Baillot, added his own mother's aristocratic surname de Guerville at some point.

In 1866, his father married a second time in London to Charlotte Prenders,[4] with whom he had another son, Louis Amédée Raymond Baillot, born in Paris in 1866.

In 1894, de Guerville returned to Asia, banking on contacts he had made during the brief time he spent there in 1892 to secure an assignment as special correspondent covering the Sino-Japanese War, then known simply as the China-Japan War, for the New York Herald under the direction of James Gordon Bennett, Jr. His primary competition was James Creelman, writing for The New York World.

[7] In 1898, de Guerville became part-owner and manager of The Illustrated American, a New York monthly periodical.

By his own account, de Guerville experienced a near miraculous recovery from his tuberculosis while a patient at the pioneering Nordach Clinic for consumptives in Germany's Black Forest region.

[8] Thereafter he continued to travel and write for a short while, producing his memoirs of his experiences in the Far East entitled Au Japon (1904), in which he admitted that the massacre had occurred while insisting it was Japanese coolies who had done the butchering.