Lacrosse-Waukesha-Columbia County WI Archives Biographies.....Edwards, R. D. 1822 - 
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R. D. EDWARDS, Station Agent for the C. & N. W. R. R. Co., at Rockland; born 
in North Wales in 1822; his parents died in Wales; he came to the United 
States in 1850; came to Milwaukee, and thence to Waukesha Co., where he was 
engaged as teacher in the Nashotah Episcopal College for three years; thence 
to Cambria, Columbia Co., where he engaged in teaching; afterward engaged in 
farming. He removed to Monroe Co. in 1861, where he engaged in teaching and 
farming; settled in the town of Burns in the spring of 1875; has been Station 
Agent since July, 1878. He married Jane Hughes, and has three children - 
Samuel D., B. F., an operator at Summit, and Jane. Mr. Edwards was educated in 
London, where he taught many years previous to his coming to the United States.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 843 - 844.

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