As a former Princeton Dean and lecturer, Edward was one of the most distinguished founders of the Economic Round Table. He was older than most of the youthful men who joined Durward Howes in 1932. He was 58. And he had traveled a long, long road before coming to Los Angeles.

He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1874. He received a bachelor's degree at Princeton University, then moved to Germany, earning a PhD degree at the University of Heidelberg. He returned to Princeton as a lecturer and then became Dean of College from 1909 to 1912.

Edward switched back to teaching in 1913, lecturing in international law at Princeton from 1913 until 1916. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, where he was professor of international law from 1916 to 1920. He was admitted to the San Francisco Bar and became a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of California.

In 1921, Edward was lured down to Southern California as Vice President and a mem­ber of the Executive Committee at Security Pacific ational Bank. Edward moved back to Wall Street after World War Two but made frequent trips back to visit with his friends at ERT. He retired to his home in Short Hills, New Jersey – and when he was 83, he wrote to Durward Howes on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of ERT: "Remember those days back in 1932 when we used to analyze the platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties? I often smile when I think how naive we were. We thought that political platforms meant something, and we almost thought that we, as individuals, could do something about them. Thank God for maturity."

Edward wrote five books on international law – one of them in German.