page_title: John Stark Edwards
section_title: Rise to Congress and early death
hierarchical_section_title: John Stark Edwards / Rise to Congress and early death
caption_attribution_description: English: NRHP-listed John Stark Edwards House in Warren, Ohio.
context_page_description: John Stark Edwards was an attorney, public official, soldier and landowner in the United States.
context_section_description: In March 1811, he was commissioned colonel of the Second regiment, Third brigade, Fourth division, Ohio militia. At the news of the surrender of General William Hull at Detroit in August 1812, leading citizens put the area in a state of defense, as great alarm existed that the surrender exposed them to incursions by the British and Indians.  Edwards marched with a portion of his regiment to Cleveland. After being there for a period, his services as an officer were no longer required and he returned to Warren.
  In October of the same year he was elected Representative to the Thirteenth United States Congress from Ohio's 6th congressional district.  John S. Edwards was the first man elected to the United States Congress who resided on the Western Reserve, but he did not live to take his seat.
  In January 1813, in company with two others, he left Warren with the intention of going to the Danbury peninsula (Marblehead Peninsula) of what was then Huron County to look after his property there. When near Lower Sandusky, a thaw coming on, the companions thought best to return for home. John Edwards got wet, was taken ill with malarial fever on the road, and died in Huron County; his body was brought back to Warren.
  In 1814, his widow was married a second time to Robert Montgomery, of Youngstown.  They were also the parents of three children: Robert Morris, Caroline Sarah who married Dr. M. Hazeltine, and Ellen Louisa, who was married to Samuel Hine.
  Edwards' home still stands in Warren, albeit not in its original location, and is now a museum.
caption: Edwards' house in Warren
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