Edwin Binney was an American entrepreneur and inventor, who created the first dustless white chalk, and along with his cousin C. Harold Smith, was the founder of handicrafts company Binney & Smith, which marketed his invention of the Crayola crayon. The Binney family lived in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as Fort Pierce, Florida.
- Occupation
- inventor, engineer, entrepreneur
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Born
- November 24, 1886
- Died
- December 17, 1934
