Bio of C. F. EDWARDS (b.1870), Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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C. F. EDWARDS  (1878)

C. F. Edwards is one of the pioneers of Swede Prairie township.  He owns 
the southeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter 
of section 28, of that township, and has an exceptionally fine farm 
residence.
He raises tock quite extensively and is interested in the Farmers Elevator
Company of Minneota, the Swede Prairie & Westerheim Co-operative Telephone
Company, and the Minneota Co-operative Creamery Company.

Mr. Edwards was born at Papy, Iceland, June 16, 1870.  His father was
Edwards L. Tollefson (Edwards), who was born June 12, 1843, and who died 
in Yellow Medicine county December 14, 1885.  The mother of our subject,
Cecilia Tollefson (Edwards), was born August 25, 1845, and died at the 
home of her son in Swede Prairie December 17, 1913.

When C. F. Edwards was eight years of age, in 1878, he accompanied his
parents to the United States and to Yellow Medicine County.  The head of 
the family took as a homestead claim forty acres of land on section 28, 
Swede Prairie, and erected thereon a sod house, in which the family 
resided several years.  Our subject early began to work on the farm, 
herding stock and assisting with the chores.  When he was eleven he 
began driving a harvester.

When his father died, C. F. Edwards was fifteen years old, and at that 
early age he took the active management of the farm.  He was the only boy 
and upon him devolved the duty of conducting the farm and supporting his 
six sisters. The father has bought the other quarter section of the farm 
the year he died, and in the spring of 1892 Mr. Edwards improved that 
place and moved to the new location.  Seven or eight years ago he erected 
on it one of the fine homes of the township.

For eight years Mr. Edwards served as treasurer of his township, and he 
was chairman of the school board of district No. 90 from the date of its
organization until 1913.

Mr. Edwards was married in Duluth, Minnesota, December 6, 1897, to Gudrun
Paulson.  His wife was born in Iceland February 21, 1866, moved to Ontario,
Canada, in 1889, and to the United States in 1892.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwards
have four children:  Isabella Rose, born December 4, 1898; Christel  
Cecilia, born November 10, 1899; Clarence Ferdinand, born May 13, 1902;
and Estella Olivia, born December 21, 1903.  Two children of the family 
are deceased: Paulina Leonora, who was born March 14, 1901, and died 
August 20, 1908; and Edward Larus, who was born December 22, 1905, and 
died December 22, 1909.

Source: "A History of Yellow Medicine County" by Arthur P. Rose
Published 1914