CROWELL, William, journalist, born in Middle-field, Massachusetts, in 1806; died in Flanders, New Jersey, 19 August 1871. After receiving an academical education, he entered the Baptist ministry, and was pastor for some years at Waterville, Maine He took charge, in 1838, of the "Christian Watchman," the principal Baptist paper in New England, to which he had previously been a large contributor, and conducted it with ability till its consolidation with the "Christian Reflector" in 1848. He then edited the "Western Watchman," in St. Louis, for several years, and during the civil war was pastor of a Church in central Illinois. Rochester University gave him the degree of D. D. in 1857. Dr. Crowell was the author of " The Church-Member's Manual of Ecclesiastical Principles "; "The Church-Member's Hand-Book" (Boston, 1850); a "History of Baptist Literature for Fifty Years," for the missionary jubilee volume, and several Sunday-school books.