Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....EDGAR, Thomas H. 1845 - living in 1899
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  THOMAS H. EDGAR, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Stillwater, Fishing
  Creek township, Pa., whose portrait is shown on the opposite page, is
  successfully engaged in operating a planing-mill in that village. He is a son of
  James and Sarah (McHenry) Edgar, and was born in Fishing Creek township,
  Columbia County, Pa., near the village of Stillwater, February 15, 1845.
  
    The Edgar family is of Scotch extraction. James Edgar, the grandfather of our
  subject, was a native of New York state, but resided in Columbia County, Pa.,
  nearly all of his active days. He resided in Fishing Creek and Benton townships
  for many years and was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and his latter days
  were spent in the state of Ohio, where he died at an advanced age. His wife was
  a Miss Buchanan, a native of Long Island, N. Y., and a relative of President
  Buchanan. These children were born to the couple as follows: John, who married
  Hester Zimmerman; Robert, who wedded Susanna McHenry; Martha, who was the wife
  of Moses McHenry and resided in Fishing Creek township, Columbia County; Ellen,
  who was the wife of Elias McHenry; Elizabeth, who was united in marriage to John
  Jackson; Edward, who resided in the state of Ohio; Christina, who was the wife
  of Silas McHenry and resided in the state of Ohio; and James, the youngest, the
  father of our subject.
  
    James Edgar was born on his father's farm in Fishing Creek township, August
  22, 1806, where he was engaged in farming and lumbering a number of years; later
  he sold his farm in that township and became a resident of Benton township,
  where he remained a short time, when he returned to his native place. Mr. Edgar
  took an active part in public affairs and was one of the leading and progressive
  men of his community. He served as constable for many years. In 1828 he was
  joined in marriage to Sarah McHenry, a daughter of Daniel McHenry, a son of one
  of the pioneer settlers of that section. She was born April 28, 1810, and died
  in Fishing Creek township, September 10, 1882. This union resulted in the birth
  of nine sons and one daughter, namely: Daniel, who died October 23, 1890, was a
  miller by trade, and his wife was Louise Stoker of Luzerne County, Pa.; Robert
  died February 25, 1897, aged sixty-four years; Emanuel, a stonemason by trade
  who wedded Martha McHenry; George W., a farmer residing in Clay County, Neb.,
  and was united in marriage to Nellie Smith of Pittston, Pa.; William E., late a
  farmer of Fishing Creek township; Hiram R., who is a farmer and stockraiser of
  Loup County, Neb.; James C., who married Rose Smith and is a resident of
  Pittston, Pa.; Thomas H., our subject; Benjamin Franklin, who died April 22,
  1898; and a daughter who died in infancy. Our subject's father passed from this
  life April 16, 1883.
  
    Thomas H. Edgar, our subject, was educated in the district school and at New
  Columbia Academy and remained under the parental roof until he attained the age
  of eighteen years, assisting his father in his labors about the farm. He then
  went to Cambria where he learned the trade of a cabinet-maker, which trade he
  followed in that village until 1867; he then spent two years at Rohrsburg, Pa.,
  and one year at Centralia, engaged in the mercantile business. He also kept a
  store at Mount Carmel, Pa., which was destroyed by fire. Moving to Benton
  township he worked in a planing-mill, and later operated a mill at North
  Mountain; in 1877 he returned to Stillwater, where he erected a planing-mill 51
  by 72 feet and has since carried on that business to the present time; he also
  built a chopping-mill 30 by 36 feet. He manufactures all kinds of building
  material, including sashes, doors, windows, staircases, and mantel pieces. Our
  subject is also engaged in general building and contracting and has erected
  eighteen houses in Bloomsburg, and many of the finest residences in Stillwater.
  Mr. Edgar is a stanch Democrat. He is a member of the P. O. S. of A. of
  Stillwater, and in religious views he is a Christian. On December 26, 1867, he
  was united in marriage to Cecilia Alice McHenry, who was born July 26, 1848, a
  daughter of James D. McHenry. Three children have blessed the home of our
  subject and wife, namely: Harry O., born April 16, 1869, died February 18, 1888;
  Lelia I., born June 11, 1871, who is the wife of W. L. McHenry, a farmer of
  Fishing Creek township; and Orvis Roy, born February 8, 1883, who is attending
  school.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
  Extracted from:
  
  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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