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married to Mary Todd at liis house in Springfield, III., Nov. 4, 1842, and Mrs. Lincoln died there, July 16, 1882. Mrs. Edwards died there, Feb. 22, 188S. Major Edwards, at the request of the Illinois historical society, prepared Life and Times of Xiniaii Edwards and History of Illinois (1870). He died in Springfield, 111., Sept. 2, 1889.

EDWARDS, Ogden, lawyer, was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1781; son of PieiTepont Ed- wards, U.S. district judge of Connecticut. He was educated as a lawyer and when he reached his majority he removed to New York city where he served for several years as surrogate. He was also a member of the state assembly and a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1821. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor and w^as circuit judge of the su- preme court of the state. He retired from the bench in 1841 by reason of the age limit and died on Staten Island, N.Y., April 1, 1862.

EDWARDS, Pierrepont, lawyer, was born in Northampton, Mass., April 8, 1750; the young- est son of the Rev. Jonathan and Sarah (Pierre- pont) Edwards. He was graduated at the College of New Jer.sey in 1768 and in 1771 settled in New Haven as a jjractising lawyer. He was elected to the state legislature, was a soldier in the patriot army during the Revohition, and when Benedict Arnold was found to be guilty of treason he was made administrator of his estate. He was a delegate from Connecticut to the Continental congress, 1787-88, and in the convention called to ratify the Federal constitution, Jan. 9, 1788, he. ably advocated tlie adoption of the instrument. He opposed the Calvinists and helped to found the Toleration party in Connecticut. He was made a judge of the U.S. district court and held the office at the time of his death which occurred in Bridgeport. Conn., April 5, 1826.

EDWARDS, Timothy, clergyman, was born in Hartford, Conn., May 14, 1669; son of Richard and Elizabeth (Tuthill) Edwards; and grandson of William Edwards, the first ancestor in America, who immigrated about 1640 with his mother, who had married as her second husband Jamas Coles of England; and great-grandson of the Rev. Richard Edwards of the Established church, who left Wales for London in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Timothy was graduated A.B. and A.M. from Harvard college in 1691, the unusual honor being paid to his "extraordinary proficiency in learning. ' ' He then studied theol- ogy and for the sixty-four years from 1694 to 1758 he was pastor over the church at East Windsor, Conn. In 1711 he served as chaplain of Connect- icut troops in a military expedition to Canada. He was married to a daughter of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northumberland, Mass. He delivered but one written sermon during his long

ministry and that was a political one on the occasion of the general election in 1732. His son Jonathan, the distinguished divine, took refuge at his house in 1723, to write out his seventy res- olutions, was a frequent visitor at the parsonage at East Windsor where he often preached from his father's pulpit. Their deaths occurred the same year and but two months apart. He died in East AVindsor, Conn., Jan. 37, 1758.

EDWARDS, Tryon, clergyman, was born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 7, 1809; son of Jonathan Walter Edwards, who was the only son of Jona- than Edwards, Jr., and a lawyer of Hartfoi'd. Tryon was graduated at Yale A.B., 1828, A.M. 1831, studied law m New York city, 1828-80, and theology at Princeton, 1830-31. He was ordained at Rochester, N.Y., July 22, 1834; was jiastor over Congregational churches in Rochester, N.Y., 1834-44, New London, Conn., 1844-57, and Hagerstown, Md., 1867-73; resided at Philadel- phia, Pa., 1874-79; was pastor at Gouverneur, N.Y., 1880-86, and resided at Detroit, Mich., 1887-94. While at HagerstowTi he organized and was the first president of Wilson female college. He edited the works of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, in 1842, those of the Rev. Dr. Bellamy in 1850, and Charity and Its Fruits from the MS. of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards. He also edited TTie Christian Family Almanac for many years. He received the degree of D.D. from Wabash college, Crawfordville, Ind., in 1848. He wrote: Select Poetry for Children and Yorith (1851) ; Jewels of the Household (1852) ; The World's Laconics (1852) ; Wonders of the World (1855) ; Anec- dotes for the Family, and Licjht for the Day (1879). He died in Detroit, Mich., Jan. 5, 1894.

EDWARDS, Walter Alison, educator, was born in Normal, 111., Sept. 17, 1862; son of Rich- ard and Betsy J. (Samson) Edwards; grandson of Richard Edwards ; and a descendant of Welsh ancestry on the father's side and Scotch on the mother's. He was graduated from Knox college, 111., in 1883; taught Latin m the Peoria, 111., high school, 1883-86 ; studied Latin and Greek in Berlin, Gottingen, and Tubingen, 1886-89; was principal of tlie Decatur, 111., high school, 1889- 90, and of the Rockford, 111., high school, 1891-95. and taught Latin in the Pasadena, Cal., high school in 1895-96. In 1897 he became president of the Throop polytechnic institute of Pasadena, CaL He is the author of a pamphlet, Grccisms in Pro- pertius, and a series of articles in the Pitblic School Journal on the history of normal schools in Cali- fornia.

EDWARDS, Weldon Nathaniel, representa- tive, was born in Warren county, N.C., in 1788. He was admitted to the practice of law in 1810 and located in Wan-enton, N.C. He was a member of the house of commons, 1814-15, and a