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Howard Edwards, A. M., Professor of History, English and Modern 
Languages in the A. I. U., was born in Fauquier County, Va., November 
7, 1854, and received his education under his father, who was a noted 
educator. By the time he was twelve years of age he had read many of 
the classics with his father, and when seventeen years of age he 
entered Randolph Macon College, near Richmond; graduated in 1876 with 
the degree of A. M., being first honorary man in mathematics and also 
in Latin. The last year of his course he was elected assistant 
professor of Latin. Having taught a year in private schools, he 
studied in the universities of Leipsic and Paris, making language his 
chief study. Returning, he was instructor in English, German and 
History in Bethel (Va.) Academy, for two years, and was also two years 
at the Bingham (N. C.) School. He was then acting principal of Bethel 
(Va.) Academy, for two years, then principal of Tuscumbia (Ala.) 
Academy, and in 1885 he was elected to his present position. March, 
1888, he was elected librarian of A. I. U. In 1881 he married Miss 
Elizabeth Smith. a native of Fauquier County, Va., and by this union 
were born two children, Norman and Bland. Both Prof. and Mrs. Edwards 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Rev. Francis M. 
and Frances (Bland) Edwards, parents of Prof. Edwards, were born in 
Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. The father was a native of 
King George County, was left an orphan when quite young, and was 
reared in Baltimore by a brother, Rev. William B. Edwards, D. D., 
where he received a fine classical education. He taught in private 
schools until the close of the war, and since then has been engaged in 
the ministry. The mother was a direct descendant of Theodrick Bland, 
of Colonial fame. In their family were three living children, two sons 
and one daughter. Clarence is a prominent educator of New York, and in 
his polities affiliates with the Democratic party.