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Eden, Robert – Edick, Samuel Stearns

Eden, Robert

governor, was born in England. In 1768 he became governor of Maryland; advised the repeal of the tax on tea; and when the colonel of militia demanded the arms and ammunition, he readily gave them up. He died Sept. 2, 1786, in Annapolis, Md. was

Edes, Henry Herbert

genealogist and historian, was born March 29, 1849, in Charlestown, Mass. Since 1892 he has been director and treasurer of the Conveyancers' Title Insurance company of Boston, Mass. He was the founder of the Colonial society of Massachusetts. He is the author of a Genealogy of the Edes Family; Charlestown Historic Points; and Memorial of Josiah Barker.

Edes, Richard Sullivan

clergyman, author, was born April 24, 1810, in Providence, R. I. He published a memoir of Peter Edes in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Journal and Letters relative to Two Journeys to the Ohio Country in 1788 and 1789 made by Col. John May, with a biographical sketch, and assisted in the preparation of A Genealogy of the Descendants of John May. He died Aug. 26, 1877, in Boston, Mass.

Edes, Robert Thaxter

physician, author, was born Sept. 23, 1838, in Eastport, Maine. He is a physician of Washington; and the author of Nature and Time in the Cure of Diseases; Physiology and Pathology of the Sympathetic or Ganglionic Nervous System; Therapeutical Handbook of United States Pharmacopœia; and Text-Book of Therapeutics and Materia Medica.

Edgar, Cornelius Henry

clergygan, author, was born April 11, 1811, in Rahway, N. J. He was a Dutch reformed clergyman of Easton, Pa.; and the author of Lectures on Slavery; Discourses on the Death of Lincoln; Curse of Canaan Rightly Interpreted; and Exposition of the Nine Last Wars (1867). He died Dec. 23, 1884, in Easton, Pa.

Edgar, John Todd

clergyman, author, was born April 13, 1792, in Sussex county, Del. He became pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Nashville, Tenn., in 1833, and remained there till his death. At one time he edited the American Presbyterian, published at Nashville. He died Nov. 13, 1860, in Nashville, Tenn.

Edgerton, Alfred P

journalist, statesman, was born Jan. 11, 1813, in Plattsburgh, N. Y. In 1845 he was elected to the state senate of Ohio; and in 1848 was a delegate at large to the democratic national convention. In 1850 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-second congress; and in 1852 was. re-elected to the thirty-third congress. In 1885 he was appointed United States civil service commissioner, and became the president of the commission.

Edgerton, Jesse

business man, poet, was born July 12, 1845, in Barnesville, Ohio. He is the secretary of the Columbiana Handle company of Columbiana, Ohio; and is the author of a number of poems.

Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum

lawyer, railroad president, congressman, was born Feb. 16, 1818, in Vorgennes, Vt. In 1855 he was president of the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad company, and subsequently financial agent of the same when consolidated with the Pittsburg road. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-eighth congress.

Edgerton, Sidney

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1818 in Cazenovia, N. Y. He was a prosecuting attorney for four years in Summit county. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was appointed a judge for the territory of Idaho, and subsequently governor of Montana.

Edick, Samuel Stearns

lawyer, jurist, was born June 17, 1834, in Columbia, N. Y. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1864 moved to Cooperstown, N. Y. The following year he was elected district attorney of Otsego county, and received the re-election in 1868. In 1871 he was elected county judge, served a term of six years, and refused the renomination.