Rounsevelle Wildman (March 19, 1864, in Batavia, New York – February 22, 1901) was an American journalist, a member of the United States Foreign Service, and the owner and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Overland Monthly from 1894 to 1897.
[2] After education in Lima, New York at Genessee Wesleyan Seminary[3] (of which his father was the president), Rounsevelle Wildman graduated from Syracuse University, where he studied journalism.
[1] During his years in Singapore and its environs, he continued his literary work and was made Special Commissioner for the Smithsonian Institution of the Straits Settlements and Siam.
However, in early 1894 the newly elected President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, appointed one of his own supporters to replace Wildman, who left the U.S. consular service.
[1] While stationed in Hong Kong, Wildman delivered to Commodore Dewey the White House's dispatches ordering the attack in Manila Bay.