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Edgington, Thomas Benton, soldier, lawyer, was bom April 23, 1839, in Ontario, Canada. He was educated in the public schools Richland of county, Ohio; Baldwin

United States navy. In 1871-84 he was professor of the Scandinavian department in the baptist union theological seminary of Chicago, 111. He is the author of Epiphaneia.

and grad"S'J^ uated from the Ohio Wesleyan university with the degrees of A.B., A.M. and LL.D. In 1861 he was mus-

born June 17, 1834, in Columbia, N.Y. In 1865 he was district attorney of Otsego county; and received the re-election in 1868. In 1871-77 he was county judge. Edie, John Rufus, soldier, congressman, was born in Gettysburg, Pa. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; and in 1857 became a cadet in the United States military academy. He served in the civil war as a second lieutenant in the second and the fifth cavalry; in 1863

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Ohio infantry. participated in the siege of Fort Henry; and the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh. In 1862 he became first lieutenant; and resigned on account of ill health. He aided in organizing the union military forces in West Tennessee; and in 1863 became major. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn. He is the author of The Monroe Doctrine.

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Edgren, Hjalmar, soldier, educator, philolwas born Oct. 18, 1840, in Sweden. He is a Swedish scholar who came to the United States in 1861; served two years in the federal army as officer, and afterwards seven years in the Swedish regular army. He has been professor in Swedish and American universities, rector of the university of Gothenburg, Sweden, and is now professor of linguistic science and Sanskrit, and dean of the graduate school, in the university of Nebraska. He is a member of various learned societies, and has published numerous papers and works on Germanic, Romance, Sanskrit and general Indo-European philology, as well as on literary, educational and antiquarian subjects, some of these intended to

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literature, life and antiquimore generally known in his native land. Edholm, Mrs. Mary G. Charlton, journalist, evangelist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in Freeport, HI. For several years she was a reporter on the Oakland and San Francisco papers. She had

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previously traveled exand done tensively special work for the papers of eastern cities; and also for a number of magazines. For years she was thb superintendent press of the World's wo-

man's christian temperance union; and is superintendent of the Florence CrittenShe is the author of Traffic ten missions. in Girls, and Florence Crittenten Missions. Edgren, John Alexis, clergyman, author, was bom Feb. 20, 1839, in Sweden. In 1852the 59 he sailed before the mast; and during master in the civil war served as sailing

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Edick, Samuel Stearns, lawyer, jurist, was

first lieutenant and captain in 1864. In 1855-59 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He died Oct. 24, 1874, in Pennsylvania. Edison, Thomas Alva, inventor, was born Feb. n, 1847, in Alva, Erie county, Ohio. He started life as a train boy at the age of twelve. While on the train he published a weekly paper, which was the first paper ever published on a train. One day he snatched the stationmaster's child from in front of an approaching train. The stationmaster was so pleased that he taught young

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Edmands, J. Wiley, congressman, was bom March 1, 1809, in Boston, Mass. In 1853-55 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-third congress. He founded a public library at Newton, Mass. He died Jan. 1, 1877, in Newton, Mass.

Edmands, John, librarian, author, was born Feb. 1, 1820, in Framingham, Mass. In 1847 he grraduated from Yale college; and in 184851 studied in the Yale ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ divinity 1846-47 he was librarthe society of brothers in unity at [' •BtIIbe^ Yale college; and in 1851-56 was assistant librarian of Yale colIn 1856lege library. 1901 he was librarian of the Mercantile library of Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1864 he has been deacon and clerk of the congregational church of Philadelphia, Pa. He has prepared bibliographies of Jun-

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