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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Edwards, Ogden, lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1781 in Connecticut. He was a member of the legislature; and in 1831 sat the convention called to revise the constitution of the state. He was appointed circuit judge of the supreme court, and continued in that office until 1841. He died April 1, 1862, on Staten Island, N.Y. in_

Edwards,

Oliver,

inventor,

soldier,

was

born Jan. 30, 1835, in Springfield, Mass. In 1864 he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and distinguished services; and was made major-general the year following. He was mustered out of service in 1866; and has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits. He invented the Florence oil stove.

Edwards, Pierrepont, islator,

congressman,

soldier, lawyer, legjurist, was born April

1750, in Northampton, Mass. He was frequently elected to the Connecticut legislature and was administrator of the estate of Benedict Arnold at the time of his treason. In 1787-88 he was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress; and subsequently filled the office of United States district judge for the state of Connecticut, which he held at the time of his death. He died April 5, 1826, in Bridgeport, Ky. 8,



Edwards, Samuel, congressman, was boru in Delaware county. Pa. In 1819-27 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nine-

He

teenth congresses.

died in Pennsylvania.

Edwards, Samuel, lawyer,

jurist,

was born

April 24, 1839, in Glenville, N.Y. In 18871901 he was justice of the supreme court of the state of New York for the third dis-

Edwards, Thomas M., lawyer, state legiscongressman, was born in Cheshire county, N.H. He served eight years in the New Hampshire legislature during 1834-56; and was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1859-63 he was a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-sixth and thirtylator,

seventh congresses. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. He died in New Hampshire. Edwards, Timothy, clergyman, was bom May 14, 1669, in Hartford, Conn. He was pastor over the church in East Windsor in 1694, where he remained nearly sixty-four years. He died Jan. 27, 1758, in East Windsor,

d'ied in

1815.

Edwards, Thomas C, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 6, 1848, in Swansea, Wales.

He was educated

in the British schools; in

1868-70

attended the presby-

Carmartheon

terian college;

and

in

1S79-81 attended the National school of oratory at Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1871 he has filled pastorates in the congregational church; and since 1870 has been pastor of the largest Welsh congregational church in the United States at EdIn 1880-90 he was profes-

wardsville. Pa. sor of elocution at

Wyoming seminary

of

Kingston, Pa. He is frequently called to Wales to conduct the great national Eisteddfod, assemblies of sometimes twenty thousand people. He is the author of The Mayflower and Other Poems; a work in Welsh; and two volumes on Elocution and Oratory.

Conn.

Edwards, Timothy, merchant, jurist, was born July 25, 1738, in Northampton, Mass. He removed to Stockbridge about 1770, where he was a leading citizen for fortythree years; and sat as judge of probate for Berkshire county, Mass. Hte died Oct. 37, 1813, in Stockbridge, Mass.

Edwards, Tom 0., congressman, was born Maryland. In 1847-49 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirtieth congress. He died in February, 1876, in Wheelin

ing,

W.

Va.

Edwards, Tryon, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1809, in Hartford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman; and edited the Works of Joseph Bellamy, with Memoir; and the works of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards. He was the author of Christianity a Philosophy of Principles; Self-Cultivation; Light for the Day; Wonders of the Word; and Anecdotes for the Family. Died Jan. 5, 1894, in Detroit, Mich.

trict.

Edwards, Sanford, surgeon, was born in 1742. He served with distinction as surgeon-general in General JIarion's army. He

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Edwards,

Wakeman

W., lawyer,, legislator,

author, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in Charlton, N.Y. In 1850 he graduated from the Union college, Schenectady, with honors, being third in his class; and in 1851 moved south, and taught a classical school in Camden, Miss. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar; and moved to Arkansas, where he practiced until the civil war. In 1858 he was a representative in the Arkansas state legislature. In 1865 he moved to -Louisiana; practiced law first in New Orleans, and then He has been judge of the at Abbeville. twenty-fifth judicial district court of Louisiana; and has had the management of all the public schools of the county under his charge. He is the author of various fugitive articles in current literature. Edwards, Walter Alison, educator, college president, author, was born Sept. 17, 1863, jurist,

In 1883 he graduated from and has received the degrees of A.M. and LL.D. from that institution. In in

Normal, HI.

Knox

college;

1883-86 he taught latin in the Peoria high school; and in 1891-95 was principal of the high school at Rockford, 111. Since 1897 he has been president of Throop polytechnic Since 1907 he institute of Pasadena, Cal. has been vice-principal of the high school of He is the author of Los Angeles, Cal.