Edgerton, Sidney – Edwards, Albert G
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.
Edgren, August Hjalmar
soldier, educator, author, was born Oct. 18, 1840, in Sweden. He is a Swedish scholar who came to the United States in 1862, and served for a time in the federal army, and afterwards in the Swedish army.
Since 1884 he has been professor of languages in the university of Nebraska. He is the author of Complete Sanskrit Grammar; German and English Dictionary (with William D. Whitney); The Literature of America (in Swedish); Public Schools and Colleges of the United States; Swedish Literature in America; and American Antiquities.
Edholm, Mary G. Charlton
journalist, evangelist, author, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in Freeport, Ill. For several years she was a reporter on the Oakland and San Francisco papers. She had previously traveled extensively and done special work for the papers of eastern cities; and also for a number of magazines. For years she was the press superintendent of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance union, and is now superintendent of the Florence Crittenten missions, and author of Traffic in Girls, and Florence Crittenten Missions.
She has lectured extensively on Social Purity; is a most zealous and enthusiastic worker, and has dedicated her life to the great cause.
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.
Edie, John R
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses from that state.
Edison, Thomas Alva
inventor, was born Feb. 11, 1847, in Erie county, Ohio. He started life as a train boy at the age of twelve. While on the train he published a weekly paper, which was the first paper ever published on a train. One day he grabbed the station-master's child from in front of an approaching train.
The station-master was so pleased that he taught young Edison how to telegraph. He then became a telegraph operator, and invented a system by which he could send two or more messages over the same wire at the same time. His principal inventions are the telephone, phonograph and electric light. He is now perfecting a system of taking iron out of solid rock by electricity. a
Edmands, J. Wiley
congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Edmond, William
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1755, in South Britain, Conn. He was chosen a member of the legislature; member of the council; and judge of the supreme court of that state. He was member of congress from Connecticut from 1798 to 1801. He died Aug. 1, 1838, in Newton, Conn. a
Edmonds, Elias
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 1, 1833, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a lieutenant in the fortieth Virginia regiment, army of northern Virginia; and served as a member of the Virginia state legislature in 1864-65.
Edmonds, Everett E
farmer, educator, legislator, was born Jan. 23, 1848. in Kansas. At the age of twenty-six years he was elected to the Washington state legislature. He has taught school for many years, and is a farmer.
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.
Edmonds, John Worth
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born March 13, 1799, in Hudson, N. Y. He was a member of the legislature in 1831; and of the senate from 1832 to 1836. He was circuit judge from 1845 to 1847; judge of the superior court from 1847 to 1852; and a member of the court of appeals in 1852 and 1853. He became an advocate of Spiritualism in 1853 and published Spiritualism; Reports of Select Law Cases; and Letters and Tracts on Spiritualism. He died April 5, 1874, in New York city.
Edmondson, Henry A
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1849; and was re-elected to each successive congress down to the thirty-sixth congress.
Edmunds, G
jurist. He moved to Utah, and was appointed an associate judge of the United States court for that territory.
Edmunds, George F
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Feb. 1, 1828, in Richmond, Vt. He was a member of the state legislature of Vermont in 1854-59, serving three years as speaker; and was member of the state senate, and its presiding officer pro tempore in 1861-62.
He was appointed to the United States senate as a republican to fill a vacancy in 1866; and has a since been successively re-elected four times. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1876. He was the author of the two acts passed by congress in 1882 and 1887 which effected the destruction of the polygamous system in Utah. His term of service in the senate would have expired March 3, 1893, but he resigned his office of senator on Nov. 1, 1891, and retired to private life.
Edmunds, James M
statesman, was born Aug. 23, 1810, in Niagara county, N. Y. In 1839 he was elected to the state senate; and in 1846 to the lower house.
From 1857 to 1861 he was comptroller of Detroit, which office he resigned to become the commissioner of the general land office in Washington. In 1869 he became postmaster of Washington city; from 1855 to 1861 was chairman of the republican state central committee of Michigan; and president of the Michigan Soldiers' Relief association in Washington city, from its first organization in 1861.
Edmunds, Newton
governor, was born in New York. He was an early emigrant to Dakota; and in 1863 was appointed governor of that territory, residing in Yankton, and serving in that office until 1866.
Edmunds, Paul Carrington
lawyer, farmer, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1836, in Halifax county, Va. He was elected to the senate of Virginia in 1881, and served four years; and was re-elected in 1884. He was a delegate from the sixth district to the democratic national convention at Chicago in 1884; and was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Edmundson, James Depew
banker, was born Nov. 23, 1838, in Des Moines county, Iowa. He is president of the Citizens' State bank, and is also connected with the State Savings bank, the Sioux Valley bank of Correctionville, Iowa; and the Bankers' National bank of Chicago; and the Pioneer Implement company of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Edsall, Joseph E
congressman, was born in Sussex county, N. J. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839; and was a member of the state legislature, and of the convention which framed the last state constitution.
Edsen, Edward P
lawyer, author, was born in Germany. In 1889 the firm of Thompson, Edsen and Humphries was established, which is now one of the leading law firms of the Pacific coast. He has made numerous creditable contributions to periodical literature in both prose and verse.
Edson, Cyrus
physician, author, was born in Albany, N. Y. In 1882 he was appointed on the medical staff of the health department of the city of New York as assistant sanitary inspector, and promoted through all the different grades to his present position as chief inspector. He is the author of Poisons in Food and Drink; Disinfection; and Defenses against Contagious Diseases.
Edson, Franklin
merchant, was born April 5, 1832, in Chester, Vt. He has been three times president of the Produce exchange, in 1873, 1874 and 1878.
His political affiliations have been with the county democracy, and in 1882 he was elected mayor of New York city.
Edward, Manigault Gabriel
zoölogist, geologist, was born Jan. 7, 1833, in Charleston, S. C. He is professor of zoölogy and geology, and curator of museum, college of Charleston, S. C.; and also president of the Carolina Art association.
Edwards, Albert G
soldier, merchant, was born Oct. 15, 1812, in Lexington, Ky. In 1862 he was appointed commander of the St. Louis division of state guards; and for some time had command of the troops of St. Louis, Mo. He has been bank commissioner of Missouri; and sub-treasurer of the United States at St.
Louis. He died in 1892.