Edson, Milan C
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1839-1921) US civil servant, farmer and author of Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century (1900), an agrarian Utopia (see Agriculture), in which physical health and cleanliness are emphasized. He was the father-in-law of Elmer Gates (1856-1923), founder of the Elmer Gates Laboratory of Psychology and Psychurgy, whose theories about stimulating brain-growth in adults were espoused by John W Campbell Jr in the 1950s. [JC]
Milan Chappell Edson
born Aurelius, New York: 18 March 1839
died Mesa, Arizona: 3 May 1921
works
- Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Washington, District of Columbia: self-published, 1900) [hb/]
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