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Edmonds, John Carter

lawyer, was born Nov. 30, 1848, in Fauquier county, Va. In 1870 he graduated from the Virginia Military institute. He served in the confederate service with Mosby's army as a private, and was wounded at Drainsville, Va., in February, 1864. The ball lodged in the thigh bone, and was not extracted until 1895. In 1874 he moved to Texas, where he has attained success as a lawyer at Sherman, Texas. He has been chairman of the faculty of Austin college; and has served his city as mayor for two terms.