BIO: Walter A. Edwards, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 315.
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  Edwards, Walter A., was born at Pike's Creek, Luzerne County, Pa., on 
November 6, 1866. He was converted in the Ross Street Church (now 
Central) of Wilkes-Barre in the winter of 1885, and joined the Ross 
Street Church at once. The Quarterly Conference of this church gave him 
a local preacher's license on September 2, 1895.
  He was educated in the Wilkes-Barre public schools, the National 
Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, and Drew Theological Seminary, 
graduating from the latter in 1900.
  He was connected with the Wilkes-Barre Business College from 1887 to 
1890, when he became assistant secretary of the Central Branch Young 
Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, Pa. He subsequently 
engaged in Young Men's Christian Association work in Danville and 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
  In 1899 he united with this Conference on trial, and was stationed at 
Lackawaxen, Pa. After a year's work here he was transferred to the 
Colorado Conference, where he served Merino, Brighton, and the Merritt 
Memorial Church in Denver. He was transferred back to this Conference 
September 1, 1902, and stationed at Moosic.
  On October 25, 1902, he married Miss Stella May Smith, of Wilkes-
Barre, Pa.
  His father was an enthusiastic Methodist, and did good work as a 
local preacher for a number or years. His mother was a sister of Rev. 
P. M. Mott, and planned to go into the foreign missionary work. Her 
health failing while in Wyoming Seminary caused her to abandon the 
cherished plan. She subsequently married W. H. Edwards. Six children 
were born to them, the subject of this sketch being the youngest.
  While in Drew Seminary he entered the Student Missionary Campaign 
Movement and did considerable work on Wyoming District in its behalf.