Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Edsall, Irving S. October 15, 1858 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Edsall, Dr. Irving S., was born October 15, 1858, a son of William and Jane 
(Swartout) Edsall, residents of Delaware county, N.Y.  He attended the Roxbury 
public school until eighteen years of age, when he entered the Albany Normal 
School, from which he graduated in 1879.  He taught school for a time, then 
commenced the study of medicine, entering the Albany Medical College in the 
fall of 1882.  He graduated in March, 1885, and settled in Middleville the 
same year.  He is a member of the Herkimer County Medical Society, of which he 
was vice-president in 1890 and president in 1891.  He is also a member of 
Newport Lodge F. & A. M. No. 455; of Nehasena Tribe I. O. R. M. of Newport, of 
which he is a charter member; and also belongs to the Middleville Council 
Royal Arcanum No. 1335, in which order he served as medical examiner.  He is a 
Republican in politics and was appointed county physician in 1888. He is a 
member of the Board of Trustees in Middleville and was one of its original 
trustees when it was incorporated, in 1890.  In 1892 he was elected its 
president. Dr. Edsall is a member of M. E. Church, of which he is Sunday-
school superintendent.  September 11, 1895, he married Ella Sikes, adopted 
daughter of Harvey Sikes of Greene county, N. Y.  They have one child, 
William, born in 1890.  


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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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