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Normal Schools. Edwards, Weldon Nathaniel, lawyer, congressman, was bom in 1788, in Warren county, N.C. He was in the North Carolina state legislature in 1833-44; and in 1850 was president of the state senate. In 181527 he was a representative to the fourteenth,

California

fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth

and ninteenth congresses; and was president of the state convention in 1861. Dec. 18, 1873, in Warren, N.C.

He

died

Edwards, William, manufacturer, invenwas born Nov. 11, 1770, in Elizabethtown, N.J. To him belongs the honor of the success of the United States of the manufacture of leather, both by his method and the improved machinery. His first tannery was built at Northampton, Mass. He died tor,

Dec.

1,

1851, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Edwards, William Em.ory, clergyman, author, was bom June 10, 1843, in Prince Ed-

ward county, Va. He

gyman

of Virginia.

is

He

a methodist cleris the author of

John Newson, a Tale of College Life. Edwards, William Henry, lawyer, natuauthor, was born March 15, 1822, in Hunter, N.Y. In 1842 he graduated from Williams college. He is a naturalist of Coalburgh, W.Va.; and early in life was a lawyer of New York City. He is the author of The Butterflies of North America; and Voyage up the River Amazon Shaksper not Shakespeare; and other works. Edwards, William P., congressman, was born in Georgia. In 1867-69 he- was a representative from Georgia to the fortieth ralist,



He

congress.

died in Georgia.

Edwards, William Seymour, lawyer, legislator, author, was born Sept. 14, 1856, in

New York

City. Since 1883 he has practiced law in Charleston, W.Va. In 1892-95 he was a representative in the West Virginia state legislature and speaker in the house of delegates; and in 1898 was a candidate for congress. He is the author of Coals and Cokes in West Virginia; Into the Yukon; Through Scandinavia to Moscow;

and On the Mexican Highlands. Edwards, Wynn, farmer, soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1842, in Denbighshire, North Wales. Since 1859 he has lived at Rosendale, Wis. He is a successful farmer: has taken an active interest i n the tramp problem, and through his influence a tramp workhouse has been erected in Fond du Lac. During the war he served in company F, twentyfirst regiment Wisconvolunteer infansin try; was with General

Sherman

all

through the Atlanta campaign,

wounded by a gun-shot in 1864. He again joined the regiment at Savannah, and He was marched through the Carolinas. treasurer of his town; was postmaster, and chairman. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly. until

Edwin, David, engraver, was born in December, 1776, in England. He was employed by Edward Savage, the painter; and became the most eminent artist of the time. He died Feb. 22, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. Eells, Gushing, educator, clergyman, founder, was born Feb. 16, 1810, in Blandford, Mass. In 1838-48 he was missionary to the Indians in the state of Washington; and subsequently preached and taught in various

He is places in Oregon and Washington. especially noted as the founder of Whitman He died Feb. 16, 1893, college, Washington. in Tacoma, Wash. Eells, Dan Parmelee, banker, was born April 16, 1825, in Westmoreland, N.Y. He graduated from the Hamilton college in 1848. He was prominent in the business and public affairs of Cleveland, Ohio, where he had been president of the Commercial na-

tional

bank; and his with this

connection

institution covered a period of half a century. He was one of the projectors of the Ohio central railroad, and its first president. He was prominent in the construction of the St. Louis, Keokuk and northwestern rail-

way; the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railway; the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette railroad; and the East Tennessee, In connecVirginia and Georgia railroad. tion with others, he built and consolidated railroads, along whose lines villages sprang up, manufactories were started, and the whole country benefited. He died in 1903 in Cleveland, Ohio. Eells, James, clergyman, theologian, was

born Aug. 27, 1832, in Westmoreland, N.Y. professor of theology in the San Francisco theological seminary; and also in the Lane seminary of Cincinnati; and in 1877 was moderator of the general assembly

He was

at Chicago. He died cinnati, Ohio. Eells,

March

9,

1886, in Cin-

Richard Latimer, merchant, broker,

was born in 1839, in Simsbury, Conn. He was educated at the Westfield academy of Massachusetts; and took u, business course at Hartford, Conn. He was for some time engaged in the dry goods business and then became a gold and stock broker of New York Qty. He is a member of the Hartford city guard; a member of the Prospects Heights citizens' association; and a member of the Brooklyn league club.