Murat Halstead (1829-1908) was a nineteenth century American journalist, editor and author. He studied law and graduated from Farmer's college in 1851, then worked on the weekly paper Columbian and Great West. In 1865 he became the editor of the Commercial. Then he moved to New York City where he published stories in the Cosmopolitan Monthly and served as an editor for the Brooklyn Standard Union. His works include: Life and Distinguished Services of Hon. William McKinley and the Great Issues of 1896 (1896), The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions (1898), The Story of Cuba: Her Struggles for Liberty (1898), Pictorial History of America's New Possessions: The Isthmian Canals and the Problem of Expansion (1899), The Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey From Montpelier to Manila, Galveston: The Horrors of a Stricken City (1900), Briton and Boer in South Africa (1900), Aguinaldo and His Captor (1901) and The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: Twenty-Fifth President of the United States (1902).