Charles Farwell Edson attended Lake Forest Academy, where he was already leader of the college glee club. He studied singing and piano at Chicago Musical College. He was a prominent singer giving recitals in the Pacific region around Los Angeles, where he also gave singing lessons. He also published poetry and was involved in local politics in Los Angeles before moving to Santa Fe in the early 1930s. There, he died suddenly of a heart attack. Edson was not well known, however, as a composer and poet, but was better known as the husband of the social reformer, feminist and suffragist Katherine Philips Edson, although they were divorced in 1925. Their son Charles Farwell, Jr., became a noted historian, who deciphered particular Greek inscriptions from near Thessaloníki.
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