Background
Crowell, Merle was born on December 28, 1888 in North Newport, Maine, United States. Son of Wilson Daniel and Lydia (Coburn) Crowell.
Crowell, Merle was born on December 28, 1888 in North Newport, Maine, United States. Son of Wilson Daniel and Lydia (Coburn) Crowell.
Graduate Coburn Classical Institute, Waterville, Maine, 1906. Student Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1906-1907. Doctor of Letters, from same college.
2d, Dorothy Carman, January 1, 1931 (deceased November 1953). Married 3d, Neeley Reyburn, April 23, 1955. Reporter New York Evening Sun, 1911-1915.
Associate editor and staff writer American Magazine, 1915-1923, editor in chief, 1923-1929.
Senior editor, The Reader’s Digest, 1944. Magazine writer and publicist since 1929.
Enrolled in R.O.T.C., Plattsburg, New York, May 12, 1917. Second lieutenant, August 1917.
Captain, May 1918; honorary discharge with rank of major, May 1919.
Director of Public Relations, Rockefeller Center, Incorporated., 1931-1944. Alumni trustee Colby College, 2 terms, 1937-1943.
Member New England Society (life), Delta Kappa Epsilon. Clubs: National Press, Dutch Treat.
Married Mary Brewer Leonard, September 3, 1921. Married 3d, Neeley Reyburn, April. Children: Robert Norman, Gordon: m.