Charles Edison [SEP] father
Charles Edison
Charles Edison, (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969) was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller Edison. Commonly known as "Lord Edison", he was a businessman, inventor and animal behaviorist who became Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey.
Biography.
Born at his parents' home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut in 1909.
was president of the Archaeological Institute of America from 1903. He was one of the American editors of the "Classical Review".
He was the father of Yale President Charles Seymour, and the great-nephew of Yale President Jeremiah Day.
He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b. Sep. 27, 1846) of Burton, Ohio on July 2, 1874, daughter of Western Reserve College president Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock and granddaughter of Justice Peter Hitchcock. They had three children; Elizabeth Day Seymour (b. Jan 21,