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drilling the state militia, and on June 15, 189'2, was appointed judge-advotuite-general of the Washington brigade. He became one of the leading members of the liepublica.n party in Wjishington. and state president of the German- American Republiciin clubs. He was elected president of the George Washington branch of the Irish national league in 1885); and represented his state at the World's fair in Antwerp in 1894. His contributions to jxiriodical literature include both i>r(ise and iK>etry.

EDSON, Cyrus, physician, was born in Al- kmy, N.Y., Sept. 8, 18o7; son of Franklin Edson, mayor of the city of New York, 1883-84. He re- ceived his prunary education at Albanj' academy, and at a grammar school in Tremont, N.Y., and after his thirteenth year he attended a military boarding school at Throgg's Neck, N.Y''., and attended Columbia college, 1876-79, but was not graduated. He was graduated from the Colum- bia medical school in 1881, and was appointed to the medical staff of the board of health of New York, serving as assistant sanitary inspector on the permanent force. 1884-86; as chief inspector of adulterated foods and offensive trades, 1886- 87; as chief inspector of contagious diseases, 1887-91 ; as saaitarj- superintendent, 1891-93, and as health commissioner, lS9;3-9."). He was presi- dent of the board of pharmacy, city and county of New Y'ork, and surgeon with the rank of lieu- tenant-colonel in the New Y'ork national guards. He resigned all pubUc duties, and devoted his time to the study of tuberculosis, a cure for wliich he claimed to have discovered, which he called a.septolin. He was visiting physician to the Charity hospital, vice-president of the Ameri- can society of public analysts, and secretary of the committee on hygiene of the New Y^ork count}' medical society. He was a regular con- tributor to the North American lievieii; and The Forum, and the author of nimierous scientific papers, including Poisons in Food and Drink; Dis- infection; Defences Afjainst Contagious Diseases, and Premonitions and Warnings.

EDSON, Susan A., physician, was born in Aul)urn, N.Y., Jan. 4. 1823. She was graduiited at the Cleveland homoeopathic college, March 1, 1854, and established herself in practice in Au- burn. Upon the outbreak of the civil war she volunteered as a nurse and went to Washington, D.C., where she worked in the hospitals about the national capital, extending her visits to Fort Monroe and the camps on the peninsula. At the close of the war she retumeil to Auburn, whore she again took up her practice, and in 1872 slie removed to Washington, D.C., and there an- swered such professional calls as the condition of her failing he^alth permitted. When President Garfield was shot she was summoned to his

bedside where she was a continuous attendant. For this service congress voted her $3UU0. She was for many years before and after the assas- sination physician of the Garfield family. She die.l in Washington, D.C., Nov. 12, 1897.

EDWARDS, Bela Bates, editor, was born in Soutiiampton, Mass., July 4, 1803. He was graduated at Amherst in 1824, and at Andover theological seminary in 1830, receiving ordina- tion, Oct. 3, 1837. He was tutor at Amherst, 1827-28, assistant secretary of the American education society, 1828-33 ; editor of the American Quarterly Register, 1828-42, of the American Quar- terly Observer, which he founded, 1833-35, the American Biblical Repository, which absorbed the Observer, 1835-38, and the Bibliotheca Sacra, 1844:- 53. He was professor of Hebrew language and literature in Andover theological seminary, 1837-48, and associate professor of sacred litera- ture, 1848-52. He was a trustee of Amherst college 1848-52, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1844. He published Biography of Self- Taught J/eM (1831) ; Memoir of Ilenry Martin (1831); Memoirs of E. Cornelius (1833) ; Missionary Gazetteer (1832) ; Eclectic Reader (1885). A selection from his sennons and ad- dresses with a memoir by Prof. Edwards A. Parks, was published (1853). He travelled in Europe and in the southern gulf states, 1845-53, and died at Athens. Ga., April 20, 1853.

EDWARDS, Benjamin, representative, was born in Stafford county, Va., in 1752; son of Hayden and Penelope (Sanford) Edwards. He was a planter and merchant in Maryland and married Margaret Beall of Montgomery county Md. He was a member of the state convention that ratified the Federal constitution ; a member of the general assembly of the state; and a rep- resentative in the 3d congress, 1794-95, having been elected to fill the unexpired term of Uriah Forrest. He received William Wirt in his family nominally as tutor in 1787, and aided him in pro- curing an education. He subsei[uently removed to Todd county, Ky., where he died Nov. 13, 1826.

EDWARDS, Charles Lincoln, biologist, was born in Oquawka, III., Dec. 8, 1SG3; son of John and Nancy (Stockton) Edwards, and grand.son of Isaac E. and Rachel (Rice) Edwards, and of Israel Earns worth and Sail}' Hall (Lord) Stockton. He was prepared for college at Lombard university, Galesburg, III., and was graduated there, B.S., 1884, and at Indiana imiversity, B.S., 1886, and A.Jr., 1087. He was a student at Johns Hopkins university, 1886-89, and at the University of Leipzig, lS(89-00, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1890. He was a fellow at Clark university, Worcester, Mass.. 1890-91 and 1891- 92; assistant professor of biology, University of Texas, 1892-93; adjunct professor there, 1893-94;