*Merwin, Samuel: * - Samuel Merwin was an American author and writer who was born October 6, 1874, and died October 17, 1936. Eliza B. Merwin and Orlando H. Merwin had a child on October 6, 1874, in Evanston, Illinois. His dad ran the post office in Evanston. He got married to Edna Earl Fleshiem in ...

*Merwin, Samuel: * - Samuel Merwin was an American author and writer who was born October 6, 1874, and died October 17, 1936. Eliza B. Merwin and Orlando H. Merwin had a child on October 6, 1874, in Evanston, Illinois. His dad ran the post office in Evanston. He got married to Edna Earl Fleshiem in 1901. There was an adopted son named John Merwin and two boys named Samuel Kimball Merwin, Jr. and Banister Merwin. After going to Northwestern University, he worked for Success magazine from 1905 to 1911, first as an associate editor and then as the editor. The magazine sent him to China in 1907 to look into the drug trade. While having dinner at The Player's Club in Manhattan on October 17, 1936, he had a stroke and died. Henry Kitchell Webster was an American author who lived from September 7, 1875, to December 8, 1932. He was one of the most famous serial writers in the country in the early 1900s. He wrote mystery, family drama, science fiction, and other types of novels and short stories. He also came up with new ways to make books sell a lot of copies. Towner K. Webster and Emma Josephine Kitchell had one son, Henry Kitchell Webster. He was the oldest child. In 1897, he graduated from Hamilton College and started teaching rhetoric at Union College. In any case, he lived in Evanston, Illinois, for most of his life. Their wedding day was September 7, 1901. After his first books did well, he and Mary took a trip around the world in 1910.