Background
Robert Leland Crowell was born on May 11, 1909, in Montclair, New Jersey, United States, to Thomas Irving and Minnie Helen (Lel) Crowell.
180 Main St, Andover, MA 01810, United States
From 1923 to 1927, Crowell attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Crowell received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1931.
(Presents lore and legends behind several common flowers i...)
Presents lore and legends behind several common flowers including narcissus, crocus, dandelion, carnation, and marigold.
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1982
Robert Leland Crowell was born on May 11, 1909, in Montclair, New Jersey, United States, to Thomas Irving and Minnie Helen (Lel) Crowell.
From 1923 to 1927, Crowell attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He also received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1931.
Mr. Crowell joined Thomas Y. Crowell, the first American publisher of Tolstoy and Gogol, as a sales representative in 1931, moving up the ranks until he became president and treasurer in 1937.
The company, which started as a book bindery, began publishing books in 1876 when Mr. Crowell's grandfather, Thomas Young Crowell, started his own publishing branch of the Boston bookbinder. The bindery was closed in 1920 and the company became a publisher exclusively. Outside the company, Mr. Crowell was a director of the American Book Publishing Council, a member of the United States Information Agency's advisory committee and a director of the Yale University Press.
Besides his duties at the family business, Crowell was on the board of directors for Franklin Publications, the Dun-Donnelley Corp., and the Yale University Press board of governors. Harper-Collins bought out the family business in 1978 and Crowell stayed on as a consultant for the firm until his retirement two years later. He wrote two books after leaving the business: The Lore and Legends of Flowers, in 1982, and Historic Newfane Village: The Houses and the People, in 1989.
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1982An avid conservationist and benefactor, Mr. Crowell donated tracts of land in Vermont and Maine to Yale and the Nature Conservancy.
On December 23, 1938, Crowell married Ruth Brown Shurtleff, but they divorced, and, on December 19, 1967, Robert married Muriel B. Hutchinson.
Crowell had three children: John Leland, Timothy Adams and Benjamin Shurtleff.