He was president of the Chemistry Club, the Chess Club, and the Mandolin and Guitar Club, and captain of the Drill and Rifle Team he also sang the bass lead in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. ) He entered its prep school in 1907, and graduated with two degrees in chemical engineering in 1914. (Many years later he would be installed in the 1984 Class of the University of Idaho Alumni Hall of Fame. Smith worked mainly as a manual laborer until he injured his wrist while fleeing from a fire at the age of 19. In 1910, Fred and Caroline Smith and their son Walter were living in the Markham Precinct of Bonner County, Idaho Fred is listed in census records as a farmer. born January 1884, Mary Elizabeth born February 1886 (all of whom were born in Michigan), and Walter E. In 1902, the family moved to Seneaquoteen, near the Pend Oreille River, in Kootenai County, Idaho. Smith was working as a contractor in 1900. They moved to Spokane, Washington, the winter after Edward Elmer was born, where Mr. His mother was a teacher born in Michigan in February 1855 his father was a sailor, born in Maine in January 1855 to an English father. 6 Derivative works and influence on popular cultureīiography Family and education Įdward Elmer Smith was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on May 2, 1890, to Fred Jay Smith and Caroline Mills Smith, both staunch Presbyterians of British ancestry.4 Influence on science and the military. 1.4 The early 1930s: between Skylark and Lensman.1.2 Early chemical career and the beginning of Skylark.
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