E. Doc Smith - Father of the American Cosmooper
The future writer was born with Fred J. Smith, the former whale, who worked in shipping on the Great Lakes, and Caroline Mills Smith, Housewives, May 2, 1890 in the small town of Shebogan, Wisconsin. He was the second of five children. Both parents were British origin and convinced by the Presbyterians. They christened the boy Edward Elmer and in the same year moved to the Spokan, Washington, where his father took contracts for carpentry and carpentry.