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History of Madison County, Ohio
Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co.
1883
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E. R. EBNER, London, boot and shoe
manufacturer and dealer, was born in the Province of Saxony,
Germany, Feb. 24, 1840. His father, Charles
August Ebner. was also a native of Saxony, and
during life has been a manufacturer of violins. He
still resides in Germany, and is seventy-three years of age.
He was united in marriage to Wilhemina Stark, who is
still living, and in her sixty-eighth year. They are
the parents of eight children, five living. Our
subject is the fourth child, the oldest living one, and the
only one of the family in America. He learned his
present trade in Germany, when but fourteen years of age,
and when twenty-six years old came to America, and direct to
London, having been acquainted with, and worked for
William Stahl, brother of John Stahl,
in Germany. He obtained employment with John
Stahl, and remained with him two or three years, and in
1869 went to Midway, Range Township, where he opened a shop.
He returned to London in 1871, and in 1873 established his
present business. He first commenced dealing in boots
and shoes in May, 1881, and has had fair success in both
branches of the business. Mr. Ebner is a
member of the Democratic party. He was married Oct.
14, 1869, to Dorotha Young, a native of
Germany. Of the four children given them, two are
living—Annie and Otto. Mr.
Ebner and family are members of St. John's Evangelical
Lutheran Church of London.
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JOSEPH EDWARDS, wagon-maker, Plain City, was born
in Bedford County, Penn., Jan. 10, 1838, and is a son of J. P. and
Abarilla (Stephens) Edwards, natives of Pennsylvania, of English
descent. Joseph was reared on a farm and received a
common-school education. At the age of nineteen, he began learning
wagon-making, which he has since followed with the exception of five
years, from 1861 to 1866, spent in the Western States and Territories.
In 1866, he came to Plain City and went into business with Jacob
Weaver, and has since been doing a successful business.
In 1863, he married Margaret Dunkin, a daughter of Reuben
Dunkin, and a native of New York. They have three children -
Estella, Curtis and Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards
are members of the M. E. Church, in which he has been Trustee. He
is a Republican in politics.
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R. H. EDWARDS, proprietor Empire
Livery, and a prominent grain dealer of London and Central
Ohio, was born in Fayette County. Ohio, Jan. 16, 1844. He
is a son of James P. Edwards, a native of
Pennsylvania, and a member of the Society of Friends.
He came to Ohio about fifty years ago, locating in
Jeffersonville, where he was a pioneer merchant. He
subsequently removed to Charleston, Clark County, where he
died in October, 1872. He married Susan,
daughter of Col. Robert Hill, of Virginia, and
a pioneer of Clark County, Ohio. Mrs.
Edwards passed away from earth, in December, 1879.
Our subject is the oldest of four children, three living,
and two residents of Madison County. He was mostly
reared in Charleston, Clark County, and when young assisted
his father in the mercantile trade. He subsequently
traveled for Erhart & Beeson, wholesale
grocers of Columbus. remaining with them six years In 1862,
he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but officiated as Private Secretary
to Gen. Milroy, during his two years’ services. After
leaving the army, he traveled some, and finally located at
Detroit, where he became a member of the firm L. W.
Linker & Co., whole sale grocers and tea dealers.
He was engaged in this business eight or nine years, and in
1879 came back to Ohio, locating in London. In April,
1880, Mr. Edwards purchased the Empire Livery
Stable, where he has met with good success. He first
commenced buying grain in 1878, and has purchased and
shipped for Eastern parties since. He buys all over
Central and Southern Ohio, his yearly trade averaging 1,000
to 1,200 cars. Mr. Edwards was one of
the organizers, and is now a Director and Secretary of the
London Driving Park Association. He is Unitarian in
religious belief and Republican in politics. He was
married Jan. 10, 1869, to Fannie C. Thomas, of
Delaware County, Penn. Mrs. Edwards died
of consumption in October, 1876, while in attendance at the
Centennial Exhibition, at Philadelphia. He was again
married, Oct. 2, 1878, to Lydia M. Leach,
a native of Fayette County. Ohio, a sister of Mrs.
Jeremiah Rea, of London, and daughter of
Benjamin Leach, a pioneer of Fayette County. Ohio.
They have a son and daughter—Pierrepont and Wanah.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio -
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SAMUEL H. EDWARDS,
grain merchant, Lilly Chapel, was born in Camden County, N.
J., May 21, 1840, and is a son of Job H. and Eleanor P.
Edwards, natives of New Jersey. The grandparents
were Richard H. and Eleanor P. Edwards, natives of
New Jersey. The grandparents were Richard H. and
Deborah Edwards, also of New Jersey, their ancestors
being of Ger man and Irish descent; they lived and died in
New Jersey. The maternal grandparents, Samuel B.
and Susan Hunt, were also natives of New
Jersey, where he died; she subsequently died at La Fayette,
Ind. Mr. Hunt was a soldier in the war
of the Revolution. They were of Irish descent. Job
H., the father of our subject, was brought up to the
carpenter trade, which he followed through life. He
married Miss Eleanor P. Hunt, of New Jersey, and
settled in that State, where they resided till the spring of
1844, when they emigrated to Ohio, and located at South
Charleston, Clark County, where they lived about two years.
Thence they moved over the line into this county; thence
they moved into Fairfield Township, where his wife died Mar.
3, 1877. Mr. Edwards still survives, and
now resides with one of his sons at California, aged
sixty-eight years. He is now totally blind, and has
been thus for three years. He is the father of eleven
children, of whom nine now survive - Thomas, Susan
(wife of F. M. Thomas), Samuel H., Richard,
Isaiah, William, Ellen (wife of
Andrew Bell), and Charles.
Four of these sons were in the late war of the rebellion.
Samuel H. and Isaiah enlisted in Company B,
Ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in July,
1862; the former was taken prisoner at Richmond, Ky., on
August 30 of the same year, by Kirby Smith,
was paroled, about six months after was exchanged, and then
entered the Sixtieth Regiment Second Battalion Veteran
Reserves and served till the close of the war, receiving his
discharge in August, 1865. Isaiah was soon
stricken down with the measles, from the effects of which he
became unfit for duty and was discharged in 1863, after a
few months’ service. Richard enlisted in the
One Hundred and Eighty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and served till the close of the war.
Jacob enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Regiment Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, aud served till near the close of the
war; when at the battle of Guntown, Tenn., he was severely
wounded in the thigh, from which cause he was discharged,
and has since drawn a pension. The subject of this
sketch, the fourth child of his father, was about four years
of age when brought to Ohio, and here was raised to manhood,
brought up to farm labor, and received a good common school
education. He attended Gundries’ Commercial College at
Cincinnati, and then taught school during winters for ten
years in succession, and in all has taught seventeen terms.
On Mar. 10, 1870, he was united in marriage with Miss
Sarah A. Hume, who was born in Madison County Oct. 7,
1830. She was a daughter of George and Ann Hume,
natives of Virginia. George was a son of
William and Ann Hume, natives of Ireland, who became
early settlers of Virginia, where they lived and died.
Ann, wife of George Hume, was a
daughter of Thomas and Ellen (Owens) Scott, natives
of Ireland. Mrs. Hume was but four years of age
when brought to Ohio in 1798, and settled in Pike County,
where she grew to womanhood and married Mr. Hume.
They settled in Pike County, where they resided till 1826,
when they removed to Madison County, and here resided till
his death, Mar. 20, 1856. Mrs. Hume
still survives, and resides with her daughter, Mrs.
Edwards, at Lilly Chapel, now eighty-eight years of
age. She is truly a pioneer, and is one of the oldest
surviving early settlers of Madison County. She has
now resided in Ohio eighty-four years, and in Madison County
fifty-six years. She is the mother of thirteen
children, six now surviving - Thomas, George,
James, Mary (wife of Richard Jones),
Sarah A. and Francis Marion.
Mr. Edwards and wife have two children - Oscar
H., born Dec. 25, 1870, and Anna E., born Mar. 8,
1872. Mr. Edwards followed farming and
teaching till in Oct., 1880, when he entered upon his
present business, that of buying and shipping grain, in
which he is doing a profitable and flourishing business.
He is a member of Lilly Chapel Grange, No. 583, and is a
worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which he
has belonged for twenty-nine years.
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WILLIAM A. EVANS, farmer, P. O.
London, was born in Clark County, Ohio, Apr. 25, 1846.
He is the son of William B. and Sarah (Bowen) Evans,
the former a native of Virginia, of Welsh descent, and the
latter a native of New York, of German and English descent.
His father died when our subject was eighteen years old, and
the burden of supporting the family devolved largely on him.
He took charge of the farm and operated it successfully.
He is a natural machinist, and can set up or use almost any
piece of machinery. He was married, in 1869, to
Victoria P. Orcutt, born in Greene County, Jan. 14,
1848, and a daughter Henry Orcutt. They have
had two children, viz.: P. B., born Nov. 3, 1870, and
Carrie E., born May 21, 1873. Mr.
Evans is a Republican, and is now serving his third term
as Trustee. He has served as a delegate to the Ohio
State Convention. He has been an Odd Fellow twelve
years.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio -
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