Background
Balch, Edwin Swift was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Emily (Swift) Balch.
Balch, Edwin Swift was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Emily (Swift) Balch.
Brother of Thomas Willing B. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1878. Studied law in office of William Henry Rawle.
Admitted to Philadelphia bar, 1882. Author: Mountain Exploration, 1893. Glacières or Freezing Caverns, 1900.
Antarctica, 1902; Comparative Art, 1906. The North Pole and Bradley Land. 1913; Mount McKinley and Mountain Climbers’ Proofs, 1914.
Elise Willing Balch in Memoriam, 1917. (with Eugenia Macfarlane Balch) Art and Man, 1918. Arts of the World, 1920.
Home: Philadelphia, Pa.
Married Eugenia H. Macfarlane, October 5, 1904. Married second, Emily Tapscott Clark, November 1, 1924.