Theodore Miller Edison
{{Short description|American inventor (1898–1992)}}
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West Orange, New Jersey
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Montclair Academy (1916)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923)
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Mina Miller Edison
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Theodore Miller Edison (July 10, 1898 – November 24, 1992) was an American businessman, inventor, and environmentalist. He was the fourth son and youngest child of inventor Thomas Edison, and founder of Calibron Industries, Inc. He was the third child of Edison with his second wife, Mina Miller Edison.
Biography
He was born on July 10, 1898, at Glenmont, the Edison home in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey. He attended The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and later the Montclair Academy in Montclair, New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1916.{{cite news |title=Edison Sees Son Graduated. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/06/10/100211013.pdf |work=The New York Times |date=June 10, 1916|accessdate=2008-06-19 }}[https://web.archive.org/web/20061012042505/http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/home_family/fam_album.htm#theo Edison Family Album: Theodore Miller Edison], National Park Service. Accessed November 21, 2007. Theodore ended his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned a physics degree in 1923 and remained there another year to pursue graduate studies.{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Pace |title= Theodore M. Edison; An Illustrious Father Guided Inventor, 94 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDA173DF935A15752C1A964958260 |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1992 |accessdate=2007-07-21 }}
In 1925, he married Anna Maria (Ann) Osterhout, a graduate of Vassar College.{{cite magazine |title=Engaged |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880723,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210125809/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880723,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 10, 2009|magazine=Time |accessdate=2008-08-04 |date=July 21, 1924}}
After graduation, Theodore worked for his father's company, Thomas A. Edison, Inc., starting as a lab assistant. He later founded his own company, Calibron Industries, Inc., and built his own smaller laboratory in West Orange. He earned over 80 patents in his career.
In later years he became an ardent environmentalist and helped preserve Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in southwest Florida,{{Cite web|url=https://jamespatrick1.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-acquisition-and-development-of-the-corkscrew-swamp-sanctuary-1952-1967-carl-w-buchheister-2/|title=The Acquisition and Development of the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, 1952-1967 {{!}} Carl W. Buchheister|date=2011-08-03|website=ThursdayMan {{!}} el hombre del jueves|access-date=2016-05-17}} as well as Monhegan Island in Maine.{{Cite web |title=Our History {{!}} Monhegan Associates, Inc. |url=https://monheganassociates.org/about-us/our-history-2/ |access-date=2024-08-21 |language=en-US}} He was also an opponent of the Vietnam War and advocate of Zero Population Growth. He lived in West Orange, New Jersey and died from Parkinson's disease on November 24, 1992.{{cite news |first=Eric |last=Pace |title= Theodore M. Edison; An Illustrious Father Guided Inventor, 94 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDA173DF935A15752C1A964958260 |work=New York Times |date=November 26, 1992 |accessdate=2007-07-21 }}
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Category:American environmentalists
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