Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Edwards, W. 1841 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   W. EDWARDS. harness-maker, Findlay, was born in Tunbridge Wells, England,
January 2, 1841. son of Elisha and Susan (Damper) Edwards, who came to our
shores in 1846, and located in Findlay. Ohio, where the father died in 1849,
leaving five sons and four daughters. William, our subject, when eighteen years
old became apprenticed to the harness-making, and in 1867 embarked in the
business on his own account, with which he has since been prominently identified
in Findlay. He was married in Findlay, in 1865, to Catherine, daughter of Philip
Hoch, of Eagle Township, this county, and they have five sons and three
daughters: Ada, Charles, Merlee, Annie, Kittie, Fred, George and Ralph. Mr. and
Mrs. Edwards attend services at the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member
of the K. of H. and of the Royal Arcanum. In the beginning of the war of the
Rebellion he enlisted in Company B, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
did active service for thirty-two months, when he was honorably discharged on
account of disability, occasioned by wounds received at the battle of
Chickamauga. He is an enterprising and progressive business man and a liberal
contributor to measures for the welfare of his adopted city. Upon the
organization of the Findlay Natural Gas Company he became a stockholder and has
continued with it since. He is also a member of the Findlay Improvement Company
and other important industrial interests. In politics he is a Republican.



Additional Comments:
Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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