Edward John Norton (Saint Paul, 29 December 1874 - Málaga, 29 May 1959) was an American diplomat and businessman, consul of the United States in Paraguay and Spain.
[2] After temporarily residing in the Miramar Hotel, he acquired a property in the Limonar area, where he moved to live with his wife, Helen Whitaker Norton.
[1] His great-nephew, William Whitaker Harmon, sold the Los Pinos residence and sent most of the Nortons' possessions to his home in Chicago, in the United States.
[3] In 1999, his great-nephew together with Enrique van Dulkem, another of the dignitary's descendants, decided to publish a first edition of four hundred copies of Norton's book.
[3] Nevertheless, historians such as Andrés Arenas and Enrique Girón have pointed out that Norton “offers a very favorable testimony to Franco's military insurrection”.