BIOGRAPHY: Edwin L. Roys; Goshen, Orange co., New York

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Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the Counties.
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United
States.
New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895

EDWIN L. ROYS is a member of the firm of Mead & Roys, editors of the Goshen
Democrat, a paper which has more than a local reputation. It is recognized as
a model journal of its class, its tone being of the highest moral quality, and
pre-eminently suitable for being read in every home. Mr. Roys is a man of
remarkably good perceptive faculties, fair judgment and unusual knowledge of
his fellow-men. He and his partner have raised the sheet to a high standard of
excellence, and are unremitting in their efforts along the line of progress.

The birth of Mr. Roys occurred in Newark Valley, Tioga County, N. Y., October
9, 1844, his parents being Edwin and Hannah (Underwood) Roys, natives of
Berkshire County, Mass. The father was born in 1797, and was reared on a farm,
but later learned the mason's trade. In the spring of 1844 he removed to Tioga
County, settling on a, farm, which he successfully conducted until his death,
in the year 1857. His widow survived him for over thirty years, her death
occurring at her old home in 1889. She came from a family of Danish-French
extraction. E. L. Roys is the youngest of ten children, and on account of his
father's death was early obliged to set forth to make his own living. As one
of his sisters, Mrs. P. Hayne, was a resident of Goshen, he came to this place
in 1859, and began serving an apprenticeship as a printer under Charles Mead
in the Democrat office. By close application he soon learned the business,
gradually rising until he was made foreman, and in that capacity he served
until New Year's Day, 1892, when he purchased the interest of Charles Mead and
became a half-partner in the firm. In its political standing the paper is
Republican, and is an able exponent of the principles of the party. It is
published on Thursday of each week, and is a four-page sheet, 28x42 inches. It
is devoted to the public welfare, particularly to the various enterprises of
Goshen and vicinity.

October 6, 1869, the marriage of Mr. Roys and Mary L. Coleman was celebrated
in Goshen. She was born in Amity, Orange County, being a daughter of Bradner
and Prudence Coleman, old and honored pioneers. Mr. Roys has taken quite an
active part in local Republican politics, and served for one term as a member
of the Village Board of Trustees. He is greatly interested in everything which
tends to promote the prosperity of the locality in which he resides, and does
his share toward its upbuilding and success. Religiously he is a Presbyterian.