Charles Farwell Edson Jr. (1905–1988) was an American scholar of Ancient History.
[2] He went on to earn his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University in 1939 with a dissertation entitled “Five Studies in Macedonian History" directed by Professor William Scott Ferguson (his dissertation research was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936 and 1937).
[3] While a graduate student, Edson shared the driving with Alistair Cooke on a trip from the East Coast to Hollywood (at one point while Edson was driving, he ran into a cow and Cooke ended up in a hospital).
He was awarded a Membership in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1952 to 1953 and again from 1962 to 1963.
Edson won the Goodwin Award of the American Philological Association in 1974.