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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 168, 170
photo p. 169


STEPHEN MAURICE EDGELL.

	Stephen Maurice Edgell, vice president of the Great Western Sugar 
Company of Denver, was born October 26, 1884, in St. Louis, Missouri, a 
son of the late George Stephen Edgell, who was also a native of St. 
Louis and a descendant of an old New England family early represented 
in New Hampshire and Vermont. The founder of the family in America was 
of English birth and came to the new world about 1636. Among the 
ancestors were those who participated in the struggle for American 
Independence. George Stephen Edgell, the father, became a banker of New 
York city and for many years was president of the Corbin Banking 
Company which was founded by Austin Corbin, the maternal grandfather of 
Stephen M. Edgell of this review, who also founded the first national 
bank established in the United States, this being located at Davenport, 
Iowa. Austin Corbin became a man of national reputation by reason of 
the extent and importance of the business interests which he controlled 
and developed and which constituted an essential factor in general 
advancement. He was for years not only a leading figure in financial 
circles but was also well known in railway connections as the president 
of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. George Stephen Edgell 
died in New York city in October, 1915, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
His wife bore the maiden name of Isabella Wallace Corbin and was born 
in Brooklyn, New York, representing one of the old families of New 
Hampshire of French Huguenot lineage and a descendant of Dr. James 
Corbin, who served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary war and in 
recognition of meritorious aid rendered to his country received from 
the United States government a large tract of land in the township of 
Newport, in Sullivan county, New Hampshire, which has since been in 
possession of the family and which has been converted by Austin Corbin 
into a game preserve. Mrs. Isabella Edgell still survives her husband 
and is living at Newport, New Hampshire. By her marriage she became the 
mother of three children, namely: Corbin, a lawyer by profession, 
located in New York but now with the American Red Cross; Stephen 
Maurice, of this review; and George Harold, who is professor of fine 
arts at Harvard University.

	After attending the Cutler school of New York, Stephen M. Edgell 
continued his education at Harvard, being graduated on the completion 
of the academic course with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1907. He 
then entered the employ of the American Sugar Refining Company at 
Jersey City, New Jersey, as a day laborer and studied the sugar 
business in all of its departments in order to thoroughly familiarize 
himself with every phase and branch of the trade. He also spent a year 
in the factories of the Great Western Company and six months in the 
Brooklyn refinery and after leaving Brooklyn removed to Greeley, 
Colorado, in 1908, where he accepted the position of assistant manager 
of the Baton, Greeley & Windsor factory. There he remained for five 
years, during the greater part of which time he acted as manager. He 
then became one of the directors of the company and, locating in 
Denver, entered the sales department. The following year or on the 26th 
of April, 1915, he became third vice president of the Great Western 
Sugar Company and has since filled that position, at the same time 
remaining a director of the Great Western Railway Company.

	On the 10th of December, 1914, Mr. Edgell was married in Warwick, 
Rhode Island, to Miss Elsie Aldrich, a daughter of United States 
Senator Nelson A. Aldrich, and they have one son. Nelson Aldrich, who 
was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, October 29, 1915; and a daughter 
born in Denver on June 30, 1918.

	Mr. Edgell gives his political endorsement to the republican 
party. He is a member of the Harvard Club, Racket and Tennis Club of 
New York; also belongs to the Denver Club, the Denver Country Club, the 
Lakewood Country Club, the Denver University Club and the Denver Motor 
Club.   Along the lines indicated he takes his recreation and his 
religious faith is evidenced in his membership in the Episcopal church. 
While he is today connected with most important business interests, for 
which he has become thoroughly qualified by earnest study, close 
application and personal effort, he regards business as but one phase 
of life and does not allow it to exclude his active participation in 
and support of other vital interests which go to make up human 
existence.