Background
Crown, James Evans was born on August 11, 1873 in Catlett, Fauquier Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Review James Henry and Hannah Eliza (Stone) Crown.
Crown, James Evans was born on August 11, 1873 in Catlett, Fauquier Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Review James Henry and Hannah Eliza (Stone) Crown.
Educated Forest Hill Academy, Standardsville, Virginia, 1882-1886, Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 1887-1888 and 1891-1894, Chesapeake Academy, Irvington, Virginia, 1889-1890, Randolph Macon Academy, Beford, Virginia (orator’s medal), 1890-1891.
Read law in office of Hunton, Payne & Meridith, 1895-1897. Reporter Washington Times, 1898, New York World, Washington Bureau, 1899-1901. City editor Richmond News, 1901-1902, Chicago Inter Ocean, 1903-1905, Chicago Tribune, 1905-1907, Chicago Herald Examiner, 1907-1910, Denver Republican, 1910, New York Evening World, 1910-1911, New Orleans Item, 1911-1913, Chicago Herald Examiner, 1913-1916.
City editor New Orleans States, 1916-1936, editor since 1936.
Secretary protem. Times-Picayune Publishing Company.
Married Nellie Mae Schumacher, December 4, 1906.