Marvin Pierce

Marvin Pierce was president of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular womens magazines Redbook and McCalls.

Marvin Pierce was born on June 17, 1893 in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, to Scott Pierce an insurance salesman in Dayton, Ohio, and Mabel Marvin . His ancestor Thomas Pierce , an early New England colonist, was also an ancestor of Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. Marvin was a 1916 graduate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, he was nicknamed Monk and was a standout athlete in football, basketball, baseball and tennis. He was inducted into Miamis Athletic Hall of Fame in 1972. He also received graduate degrees from MIT in civil engineering and from Harvard in architectural engineering.

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