Edwin Phillips Kohl

Background

Kohl, Edwin Phillips was born on April 8, 1891 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States. Son of John Christopher and Anna (Belling) Kohl.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Wisconsin, 1913. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1917.

Career

Admitted to New York bar, 1919, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1924. Law clerk Shearman & Sterling, 1916. Assistant to general counsel American Sugar Refining Company, 1917.

Counsel Atlantic, Gulf & W. I. Steamship Lines, 1919, Kohl & Mathews, 1922, Goodbody, Danforth, Glenn & Kohl, 1928. President Foreign Securities Corporation, 1932. Senior attorney Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, 1934, trial examiner regional office, New York City, 1935.

Special counsel Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Lumbard in Federal Trade Commission case versus Cement Institute and 75 cement companies. Special trial counsel Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, for trustee in McKesson & Robbins reorganization. Private practice law, since 1940.

Legal adviser war contracts renegotiation C.W.S., Baltimore, 1943. Renegotiator price adjustment board War Department, Washington, 1944-1948. Director, general counsel Panama Railroad Company, and other companies.

Member of New York Regional Renegotiation Board, 1954.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author: The Panama Story. Hom:e 957 Park Avenue, New York City 28.

Membership

Served as ensign United States N.R.F., 1917-1919. Member University of Wisconsin Alumni Association in New York (past president, director), Navy League United States (past president, director New York Council), Military Order of World Wars, Harvard Law School Association, Association of Bar of City of New York, American Bar Association. Clubs: Harvard, Harvard Law (New York City).

Connections

Married Eleanor Harriman Baker, November 18, 1958.

Father:

John Christopher Kohl

Mother:

Anna (Belling) Kohl

Spouse:

Eleanor Harriman Baker