Biography of L. C. Edwards, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Edwards, 

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 353

L. C. Edwards

Gifted with all the qualities which go to win success for a man in commercial
pursuits, and possessed of an intimate knowledge of his profession, the man
whose career we shall now attempt to outline has won an enviable place among
business men and pharmacists in Baker county and it is with pleasure that we
are able to present here a brief review of his life as one who has contributed
largely in his own way to the general progress. While he does not seem to be
specially ambitious for political preferment (though he has been the candidate
of his party for some high offices of trust) he ever manifests a deep and
abiding interest in the welfare of his locality and his state, and deserves to
be counted among broad-minded, public-spirited, and benevolently disposed men.

Mr. Edwards was born in McMinnville, Tennessee, on March 2, 1860, and there he
grew to manhood, receiving a public school education. Later he graduated from
the Waltes and Walling College, and in 1881, shortly after receiving his
degree, he came west to Arlington, Oregon. He engaged in the drug business,
and to that he gave his best energies for about thirteen years, thereupon
coming to Sumpter, where he has succeeded in building up the finest trade
enjoyed by any drug store in the county. He owns his building and carries a
full line of drugs, chemicals, notions, etc., in fact, everything usually to
be found in a thoroughly equipped and well stocked pharmacy.

For a number of years Mr. Edwards acted as mayor of Arlington, and once he was
candidate from this district in which that town is located for the office of
representative in the state legislature. Fraternally he is affiliated with the
Masonic order. He was married in the Willamette valley in 1885, to Miss Mattie
Simon, a daughter of old and esteemed pioneer parents, and to their union one
child has been born, namely, Jesse E.