Source:
Twentieth Century History
of
Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio
and Representative Citizens.
By J. A. Kemmell, M. D.
"History is Philosophy Teaching by Example"
Published by
Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co.
F. J. Richmond, Pres.        C. R. Arnold, Sec'y and Treas.
Chicago, ILL
1910.

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LUKE EDWARDS, a citizen of Mt. Cory, O., to which pleasant town he came in 1907, for ten years previously resided on a farm of eighty acres near the town, and is well known all through this section.  He was born at Liverpool, England, May 7, 1852, and is a son of Thomas and Anna (King) Edwards.  The parents of Mr. Edwards were born in Monmouthshire, England.  They came to America and settled first at Richmond, Va., and later in Medina County, O., and lived also at St. Louis, Mo., the father in all these places working as a heater in a rolling mill.  He and wife both died at Peru, Ind., the father of 1907 and the mother in 1908.      Luke Edwards was mainly educated in the schools of St. Louis.  During a large portion of his business life he has been interested in the oil industry, for some years being in the employ of the Standard Oil Company, near Findlay.  At present he owns a lease of 1,000 acres of oil land at Fort Recovery, O., and has thirty producing wells.      In 1873, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Sarah Evans, a daughter of John and Martha (Smith) Evans, the former of whom was a roller in a tin plate mill in England, where he died in 1870.  Mr. Edwards came to America in 1870, with her brother, Anthony Evans.  Their grandmother, Sarah Anthony, was the daughter of a very prominent and wealthy man in England.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwards went to housekeeping at first in St. Louis.  They have three children: John, who is a train repairer, married a Mrs. Metzler, of Chicago, and they have two children - Preston and Wallace; Gordon, who married Ollie Shine, of Mt. Cory, has two children - Treva and Waneta; and Lottie Doris, who is the wife of Fred Fisher and they have one daughter, Beatrice. Source: Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - Ill. - 1910 - Page 530

Erwin E. Ewing

ERWIN ELLSWORTH EWING Source: Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. - Chicago - Ill. - 1910 - Page 380

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