Edmond Percy Nuel

Background

Nuel, Edmond Percy was born on August 4, 1882 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Henry Martyn and Julia Edwards (Graves) Nuel.

Education

Preparatory education Smith Academy, Saint Louis, 1892-1899, King School, Stamford, Connecticut, 1899-1901. Student Dartmouth College, 1901-1902.

Career

Son, Yves Jeffery Percy. Was reporter Saint Louis Post Dispatch, 1904. With The Motor Way, 1905-1906, New York Commercial, 1906-1907, New York Evening Post, 1907, Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, 1908-1912, editor Aeronautical (first aviation weekly magazine in the United States), Saint Louis, 1910-1912.

Editor Acro-Hydro, Chicago, 1912-1914.

War correspondent Chicago Daily News, 1914-1919. Correspondent attached to British General Headquarters in France, 1917-1919.

Correspondent Associated Newspapers in Baltic States and Russia, 1920. Correspondent Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post, from 1920-1926, successively at Moscow, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Geneva and Paris.

Paris correspondent of Philadelphia Record, 1927-1928.

With Osaka (Japan) Mainichi, and correspondent National Education Association Service, 1928-1929. With Associated Press, Paris, 1930-1931. Paris manager Columbia Broadcasting System, 1932-1933.

Tokyo correspondent Intransigeant (Paris), contributor American and British publications, 1936-1938.

War correspondent United Press in Paris, Bordeaux, Vichy, 1939-1940. Correspondent International News Service, Vichy, 1940.

Successively assistant editor, assistant chief editor, chief of monitoring, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, District of Columbia, 1941-1943. With Washington Bureau the United Press.

Washington, 1943-1948.

Learned to fly, 1911. Made first known photographs in world from airplane, 1910. Assistant chief transport officer British Red Cross, France, 1914.

Awarded Mons star and British war medals as civilian.

Achievements

• Edmond Percy Nuel has been listed as a noteworthy journalist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Legion. Dartmouth Alumni Association, White House Corrs. Association Department of State Corrs., Overseas Writers, Phi Delta Theta.

Clubs: Overseas Press (New New York

Connections

Married Zana Shaw, children—Henry M., Helen Vivienne (Mistress. Married second, Suzon Rinjonneau.

Father:

Henry Martyn Nuel

Mother:

Julia Edwards (Graves) Nuel

Spouse:

Suzon Rinjonneau

Spouse:

Zana Shaw