William Edmund Scripps

William Edmund Scripps (May 6, 1882 – 1952) was a pioneer aviator and the publisher of The Detroit News. He was also an original founder of the WWJ radio station.

He was born on May 6, 1882 to James E. Scripps, the founder of Detroit’s Evening News. His uncle (father's half-brother) Edward W. Scripps, founded the E.W. Scripps Company; and his aunt (father's half-sister), Ellen Browning Scripps, was a noted philanthropist. He was a great uncle to Samuel H. Scripps. His brother-in-law, George Gough Booth, worked alongside him in the newspaper and radio industry. His nephew (George's son) was James Scripps Booth, an artist and automotive engineer.

Scripps married Nina Amenda Downey and had four children. A one-room schoolhouse on the family property was named for his wife. When his son James Edmund II died of appendicitis in 1925 at 22, Scripps and his wife donated a painting to the Detroit Art Museum in his memory.

He died in 1952.

In 1916, he began purchasing large tracts of farmland in Lake Orion, Michigan with an ambition to raise and show animals, including Angus cattle, swine, cows, and poultry. The estate, called Wildwood Farms, grew in size to 3,830 acres (15.5 km²).

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