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Sterling E. Edmunds

 

 1930 USPC

33 Vandeventer Place

    

St. Louis, MO 63103

    
         

              

 
Sterling Edmunds was a wealthy St. Louis lawyer and anti-New Deal activist.  He was a co-founder of the National Jeffersonian democrats.  To the right is a book  he wrote, first publishwed in 1932, expressing his political views. Edmunds enjoyed outdoor sporting activities, including bird hunting.
 
I’m assuming the chips were for his own personal use.
 
The article from 1934 below detail's Edmunds' shooting prowess.
 
Edumund's obit from the NY Times dated July 14, 1944
             
 

Edmunds' home on Vandeventer Place

          

Picture of the living room of a hunting lodge built by fellow St. Louisan, Edgar Monsanto Queeny (COB of the Monsanto Co.).  Queeny and Edmunds were friends and avid hunters.  Note the pictures in the rug.