Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-06-27

| Mr.. Edwards the subject of this sketch
was a graduate of Princeton College, NeI
Jersey; and after hisreturn to New Haven
he commenced the study of the law and at
tended lectures at the celebrated school o
Judge Reeve, at Litchfeld. After com
pleting his studies, he was admitted t
practice at New Haven, and early in tn
year 1900 emigrated to the Western Re
serve. He lived for a short time in tn
township of Mesopotamia, but after he wa
appointed Recorder of Trumbull county, b.
Gov. St Clair, in July 1900, he moved t.
Warren, and continued to reside there til
his death.
He was admitted to practice by the Gen
eral Court of the Territory, northwest o.
the Ohio River, at a term held at Marietta
on the third Tuesday of October, 1900
The following is the Journal entry.
FRIDAY, Oct. 24-Om motion of Mr.
Backus,o in behalf of George Tod. John S
Edwards, Calvin Pease, Samuel Hunting
ton, and Benjamin Tappan, Esquires, who
made application to the court to be exam.
ined and admitted as attorneys and coun.
selors at law.
Wherefore the court appoint next
Thursday evening at the Court House. fol
the examination of the aforesaid applicants;
on further motion and arrangement it Is
considered by the court that the applicants,
being residents of Trumbull county, former
ly a part of the State of Connecticut, where
they were admitted, arc entitled to prac-
tice under the former laws of this Terrific
ry."
He attended faithfully and diligently to
the practice of law and the business of the
Recorders office, occasionally visiting his
native STATE for purposes of business or
pleasure.
He was married February 28th, 1907,
to Louisa Maria Norris, daughter of the
late Gen. Lewis r. Morris, Of Springfield,
Vermont, and brought his wife to Warren
the next spring. His residence, on an ele-
waited spot in the southeast part of the vii
lage, which he occupied until his death,
was pleasant and attractive; overlooking
the rich and fertile valley of the Mahoning
which stretches off to the south and east.
1t is now the home of the venerable Thom-
as D. Webb, who is one of the few survi-
vors of the early members of the bar in the
old third circuit C2arum ct reneraJile
nomen.
The Merino Sheep fever, arising from a
recent importation of Spanish Merino
Sheep into New England, by Col. David
Humphreys, American Minister at the
Court of Madrid, ragged with a good deal
of fury, and had become epidemic in some
parts of the country. Mr.. Edwards was
one of its unfortunate victims, and in 1909
or 10 he purchased of his father. in COM
pany with his brother Ogden, Put-in-Bay
Island, in the southwestern part of Lake
Erie, containing some two thousand acres
of land, for sheep farm. He made suit
able improvements, and at great trouble
and expense, collected flock of sheep and
put it on the Island. He purchased two
or three Merino Bucks at five hundred dol
lars piece, and transported them in a two
horse wagon from New England The ex-
pertinent was not very successful; the war
Of 1912, the troubles subsequent upon the
war, the exposed condition of the Is
land, and his own death which soon af-
ter followed, put an end to the enterprise {
In the year 1912 he was commissioned
IS Colonel of one of the regiments in the
ith Division of Ohio Militia, then under .
of a distinguished Revolutionary
patriot, General Elijah WadswOrth, of
Janfeld, and after Gen. Hulps surrender T.
It Detroit, Aug. 10, 1912, by which the
whole Northwestern frontier was thrown
pen to invasion by the enemy, he took an
ctive part, with other patriotic citizens of
he country in concerting measures Of de-
ence.
By an act of the Legislature, passed
february I+th, 1912, the State of Ohio
7as divided into six districts, and there
ore entitled to six members of Congress-;
nd such was the standing of Mr.. Edwards,
nd the estimation in which he was held
t home and abroad that at the October
lection in that year, he was the successful
andidate in the 9th District, composed of
le counties of Tuscarawas, Stark, Colum- {
lana, Portage, Trumbull, Cuyahoga, Geau- f
4, Ashtabula, Knox, Wayne and Rich S
md. '
The late Gen. Reasin Beal, of Wooster, '
Jayne county, was the opposing eandi- S
lte But Mr.. Edwards did not live to t
Ike his seat in Congress. In the month
January, 1913, at a very inclement sea-
n of the year, he made a journey to the S
frontier, and among other t
aces, visited Put.in-Bay Island to look d
ter his flock of sheep. still cherishing S
gh hopes of success.
While upon this journey, he was subject )
to great fatigue and hardship, and, as
was about returning home, was taken C.
ddenly i'll with a fever then prevailing,
d survived the attack but two or three II
rs. He died at Huron. January 29th, v