Hermon Reed Howes (July 5, 1900 â€" August 6, 1964) was an American
model who later became an actor in silent and sound films.Howes was
born in Washington, D.C. in 1900, the only child of Edwin Luther Howes
and Grace LaForest Howes (née Meserve). He spent the beginning of his
childhood in Washington, D.C. before moving with his parents to Ogden,
Utah. He served in the US Navy in the closing stages of World War I
and was the Pacific Fleet Swim Team's captain. After the war, Howes
attended the University of Utah where he graduated. He later went to
Graduate School at Harvard University and then entered show business
appearing in vaudeville in stock roles. In 1919, while attending
Harvard, he saved the lives of a young woman and another man after
they nearly drowned in the ocean at York Beach, Maine.Howes married
three times in his life: to Lillian Pechin in 1923, Catherine Tabor in
1932, and Mary Donovan Howard in 1937.In the early 1920s Howes began
modeling shirts and detachable collars produced by Cluett Peabody &
Company. Howes was one of several men known as Arrow Collar Men
(others were Neil Hamilton, Fredric March, Brian Donlevy, Jack
Mulhall, and possibly Ralph Forbes) who were the models seen in the
Cluett Peabody company's advertisements for the apparel drawn by
illustrator J. C. Leyendecker. A 1924 advertisement by film company
FBO capitalizing on Howes Arrow Collar popularity has Howes:
"Acknowledged and acclaimed America's handsomest man To be starred in
a series of Eight Productions" .
model who later became an actor in silent and sound films.Howes was
born in Washington, D.C. in 1900, the only child of Edwin Luther Howes
and Grace LaForest Howes (née Meserve). He spent the beginning of his
childhood in Washington, D.C. before moving with his parents to Ogden,
Utah. He served in the US Navy in the closing stages of World War I
and was the Pacific Fleet Swim Team's captain. After the war, Howes
attended the University of Utah where he graduated. He later went to
Graduate School at Harvard University and then entered show business
appearing in vaudeville in stock roles. In 1919, while attending
Harvard, he saved the lives of a young woman and another man after
they nearly drowned in the ocean at York Beach, Maine.Howes married
three times in his life: to Lillian Pechin in 1923, Catherine Tabor in
1932, and Mary Donovan Howard in 1937.In the early 1920s Howes began
modeling shirts and detachable collars produced by Cluett Peabody &
Company. Howes was one of several men known as Arrow Collar Men
(others were Neil Hamilton, Fredric March, Brian Donlevy, Jack
Mulhall, and possibly Ralph Forbes) who were the models seen in the
Cluett Peabody company's advertisements for the apparel drawn by
illustrator J. C. Leyendecker. A 1924 advertisement by film company
FBO capitalizing on Howes Arrow Collar popularity has Howes:
"Acknowledged and acclaimed America's handsomest man To be starred in
a series of Eight Productions" .
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