Hancock-Fairfield County OhArchives Biographies.....Edwards, William J. 1837 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   WILLIAM J. EDWARDS, livery stable, Findlay, was born in Philadelphia, Penn.,
September 23, 1837, son of Josiah P. and Ann (Young) Edwards, natives of
Ireland. Josiah P. Edwards learned shoe-making in Donegal, his native city, and
when a young man came to this country and settled in Philadelphia. He afterward
moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, and from there to Findlay, this county, in
1852, where he died in 1871. He had a family of three sons and three daughters,
of whom one daughter and one son remain: Sarah Ann (wife of Luther Norton, of
Charleston, Ill., and William J. Our subject carried on farming till 1866, when
he came to Findlay and embarked in the livery business with which he has been
favorably connected since. In 1874 he built his present extensive barn and
stables. He was married in Findlay, in 1860, to Lucinda J., daughter of Peter
and Elizabeth (Powell) Foltz, and they have one son and one daughter living:
Wilson J. (married to Nettie Ferard, daughter of John F. and Fanny J. S. Ferard
(they have one son and one daughter), and Clara Blanche, and have buried
Margaret J., Emma May and an infant. Mrs. Edwards is a worthy member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to which her husband is a liberal supporter. Mr.
Edwards is an active and enterprising business man and a worthy citizen. He has
had charge of carrying the mails here for the past fourteen years. He is a
member of the K. of P.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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