Edwards, Wakeman W
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 13, 1826, in Charlton, N. Y. He attended the public schools of his native village and prepared for college at the Schenectady lyceum. In 1850 he graduated from the Union college with honors, being third in his class. In 1851 he moved south, and taught a classical school in Camden, Miss. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Arkansas, where he practiced until the civil war; and in 1858 was a representative in the Arkansas state legislature. In 1865 he moved to Louisiana; practiced law first in New Orleans, and then at Abbeville. He has been judge of the twenty-fifth judicial court of Louisiana, and has had the management of all the public schools of the county under his charge.
EDWARDS, WELDON NATHANIEL, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1788, in Warren county, N. C. He was in the legislature for two years; was a member of congress from North Carolina from 1816 to 1827; and again went into the legislature, serving there from 1833 to 1844. He was again elected in 1850; was made president of the state senate; and was president of the state convention in 1861. He died Dec. 18, 1873, in Warren, N. C.