Fawcett gave up his railway job to become a cub reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune. Three more sons followed over the next five years: Roger, Gordon, and Roscoe Kent. The same year he began clerking, Fawcett's wife gave birth to twins, Marion and Wilford H. Paul, where Fawcett clerked for the Railway Mail Service. Fawcett was injured in the Philippines and returned to the United States. He spent two years in the Philippines, serving in the Philippine-American War, where he absorbed military culture and the war stories told by older soldiers. His enlistment papers described him as a ruddy-faced, brown-haired youth standing just over five-foot-five.Īrmy life suited Fawcett. Fawcett ran away from home in 1902, at age sixteen, to join the US Army. The Fawcett family moved to North Dakota three years after Wilford's birth. Wilford Fawcett was born in 1885 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, to Maria Neilson and John Fawcett, a physician. He was also a veteran of two wars, an Olympic athlete, a world traveler, a big-game hunter, and a resort owner. He was editor and publisher of a bawdy men's humor magazine called Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. One of the most colorful characters on the scene in early twentieth century Minnesota was Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett.
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