Edwards, Ninian – Eells, Myron
Edwards, Ninian
lawyer, jurist, governor, United States senator, was born in March, 1775, in Montgomery county, Md. Removing to Kentucky, he was twice elected to the legislature; was appointed a circuit clerk, and subsequently judge of the general court of Kentucky, of the circuit court, of the court of appeals, and finally, chief justice of the state, all before reaching the thirty-second year of his age. In 1809 President Madison appointed him governor ernor of the territory of Illinois, to which office he was three times reappointed. When Illinois became a state he was elected a senator in congress, serving from 1818 to 1824. In 1826 was elected governor of the state of Illinois, which office he filled until 1831.
He died of cholera July 20, 1833, in Belleville, Ill.
Edwards, Ninian W
lawyer, legislator, was born April 15, 1809, near Frankfort, Ky. In 1834 he was appointed attorney-general of Illinois. In 1836 he was elected a representative in the legislature, and he served in the legislature, either in the senate or the house, from 1836 to 1852.
In 1854 he received the appointment of state superintendent of public instruction and was the first incumbent of that office.
During 1862-65 he was United States commissary with the rank of major. He wrote a History of Illinois and Ninian Edwards. He died Sept. 2, 1889.
Edwards, Ogden
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1781, in Connecticut.
He was a member of the legislature, and in 1821 sat in the convention called to revise the constitution of the state. He was appointed circuit judge of the supreme court, and continued in that office until 1841. He died April 1, 1862, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Edwards, Oliver
soldier, was born Jan. 30, 1835, in Springfield, Mass. In 1864 he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallant and distinguished services; and was made major-general the year following.
Edwards, Pierrepont
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born April 8, 1750, in Northampton, Mass. He was frequently elected to the Connecticut legislature; and was administrator of the estate of Benedict Arnold at the time of his treason. He was a delegate from Connecticut to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788; and subsequently filled the office of United States judge for the state of Connecticut, which he held at the time of his death. He died April 5, 1826, in Bridgeport, Ky.
Edwards, Samuel
congressman, was born in Delaware county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1827.
Edwards, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, was born April 24, 1839, in Glenville, N.
Y. He attained prominence as an able lawyer, and became justice of the supreme court of the state of New York.
Edwards, Sanford
surgeon, was born in 1742. He served with distinction as surgeon-general in General Marion's army. He died in 1815.
Edwards, Thomas M
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in Cheshire county, N. H. He served eight years in the New Hampshire legislature between the years 1834 and 1856; and was a presidential elector in 1856. In 1859 he was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866. TIMOTHY, EDWARDS, merchant, judge, was born July 25, 1738, in Northampton, Mass. He removed to Stockbridge about 1770, where he was a leading citizen for forty-three years, and sat as judge of probate for Berkshire county.
Edwards, Tom O
congressman, was born in Maryland. He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1847 to 1849. He died in February, 1876, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Edwards, Tryon
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1809, in Hartford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman who edited the Works of Joseph Bellamy, with Memoir; the works of his grandfather, Jonathan Edwards; and published, among other works, Christianity a Philosophy of Principles; Self-Cultivation; Light for the Day; Wonders of the Word; and Anecdotes for the Family.
He died in 1894.
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.
Edwards, William
inventor, was born Nov. 11, 1770, in Elizabethtown, N.
J. To him belongs the honor of the success in the United States of the manufacture of leather, both by his method and the improved machinery. His first tannery was built at Northampton, Mass. He died Dec. 1, 1851, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Edwards, William Emory
clergyman, author, was born June 10, 1842, in Prince Edward county, Va. He is a methodist clergyman of Virginia who is the author of John Newson, a Tale of College Life.
Edwards, William H
soldier, lawyer, was born Nov. 30, 1841, in Lawrence county, Ind. He enlisted as a private in the sixty-seventh regiment Indiana volunteers. In 1872 he was elected to represent Lawrence county in the Indiana legislature, and served during the regular and special sessions.
Edwards, William Henry
naturalist, author, was born in 1822, in New York. He is a naturalist of Coalburgh, W. Va.; and the author of The Butterflies of North America; and Voyage up the Amazon.
Edwards, William P
congressman, was born in Georgia. He was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress.
Edwards, Wynn
farmer, soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1842, in Den-. bighshire, North Wales. He received his education in Wales, and subsequently took a business course in Bryant and Stratton's college of Chicago, Ill.
He emigrated to America in 1859, and has since lived at Rosendale, Wis. He is a successful farmer; has taken an active interest in the tramp problem, and through his influence a tramp workhouse has been erected in Fond du Lac. During the war he served in company F, twentyfirst regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; was with General Sherman all through the Atlanta campaign, until wounded by a gun-shot on Aug. 7, 1864.
He again joined the regiment at Savannah, and marched through the Carolinas. He was treasurer of his town for seven years; was postmaster during President Harrison's administration; is now serving his seventh year as chairman of his town; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly.
Edwin, David
engraver, was born in December, 1776, in England. He was employed by Edward Savage, the painter, and soon became the most eminent artist of the time. He died Feb. 22, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Eells, Daniel Parmelee
banker, was born April 16, 1825, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He graduated from the Hamilton college in 1848. He is prominent in the business and public affairs of Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been president of the Commercial National bank since 1868; and his connection with this institution covers a period of half a century. He was one of the projectors of the Ohio Central railroad, and its first president. He was prominent in the construction of the St..
Louis, Keokuk and Northwestern railway; the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railway; the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette railroad; and the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad. In connection with others, he has built and consolidated railroads, along whose lines villages: sprang up, manufactories were started, and the whole country benefited.
Eells, James
clergyman, was born Aug. 27, 1822, in Westmoreland, N. Y.
He attained success as a clergyman of the Presbyterian church; and filled pastorates in Penn Yan, N. Y.; Cleveland, Ohio; Brooklyn, N. Y.; San Francisco, and Oakland, Cal. He was professor of theology in the San Francisco Theological seminary; and also in the Lane seminary of Cincinnati; and in 1878 was president of the general assembly at Chicago. He died March 9, 1886, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Eells, Myron
clergyman, missionary, author, poet, was born Oct. 7, 1843, in Walker's Prairie, Wash. Since 1875 he has been a missionary to the Indians in the state of Washington. He has a collection of geological, Indian, Chinese, and other specimens of antiquity. He is the author of several prose works and a volume of poems.