Smith, Edwin S.

• 1891: Born November 12th, Brookline, Massachusetts
• 1915: Harvard University, A.B. Degree
• 1915 - 17 : Newspaper reporter in Hartford and Springfield Married Marion Long (October 20,1917), Framingham, Massachusetts Conducted research on industrial relations at Dennison Manufacturing Company and for the Russell Sage Foundation
• 1924 - 30 : Personnel Manager, Filene's Department Store Personal Assistant to A. Lincoln Filene
• 1930 - 33 : Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries
• 1933: Official Observer to the International Labor Conference in Geneva
• 1933 - 34 : Member, National Labor Board under the National Recovery Act
• 1934 - 41 : Member, National Labor Relations Board under the National Labor Relations Act
• 1941 - 42 : National Director, Oil Workers Organizing Campaign, CIO
• 1942 - 45 : Executive Director, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship
• 1947 - 49 : Teacher of History, Putney School, Vermont
• 1949 - 52 : Director, National Teachers Division, United Public Workers of America
• 1952 - 64 : Owner and Manager, Am-Rus Literary and Music Agency, also Sovfoto and Eastfoto Agency
• 1964: Retired to Sag Harbor, New York
• 1976: November 27th, died at age 85

From the guide to the Edwin S. Smith. Papers, 1930-1940., (Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.)