Saguache County CO Archives Biographies.....Wales, Edwin January 11, 1844 - 
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Wales Brothers.  Edwin Wales, the brother of Otis and the other member of

the firm, is also a native of Knox county, Illinois, and was born on January 11,

1844.  His education, like that of his brother, was secured it he common

schools.  During the civil war he served in the company and regiment as did his

brother Otis, from November, 1861, until the command was mustered out.  Then,

re-enlisting, he was transferred to Company F, Eighth Illinois Infantry, not

enough of the Seventeenth Regiment re-enlisting to hold its organization.  Mr.

Wales served altogether four and a half years, having been wounded at Shiloh,

and when mustered out, May 4, 1866, he held commission as second lieutenant.  He

followed his brother to Colorado in 1867, and since then they have been

continuously associated in business except during the time passed by Otis at

Cheyenne, when Edwin remained at the Buckskin Joe mine, having acquired some

property there, which he sold in the fall of 1868, when the move to Saguache

county was agreed on. He has been a full partner in the business from April,

1869, and is the manager of its various features.  Like his father and his

brother, he is a public-spirited and devotedly patriotic man, and has borne his

part in the development and good government of the county.  He served as county

commissioner two terms, and in many other ways he has made his influence felt

for good in county matters. In politics he follows the fortunes of the

Republican party with earnestness and zeal, and in its councils he is

influential and very serviceable.  On June 2, 1870, he was married to Miss

Martha Abernethy, a native of Vermont, who died at Salida, Colorado, May 10,

1901.  On April 29, 1903, he married Miss Mary E. Sloan, a native of McLean

county, Illinois. 

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From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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