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Edward R. Edwards.
For a half-century or more the "Edwards Family" have been prominently
identified with the building and contracting business, in the Mahoning Valley.
Edward. R. Edwards and his brother Harry have an organization that has carried
out a large [art of the building program in the Youngstown District in recent
years, pariculart the building of homes of the better class, for the thousands
of prosperous families who have been added to the population.
Edward R. Edwards was born May 25th 1872 and is the son of Edward R. and Ellen
[Siddell] Edwards. His mother's family have a historic place in the Mahoning
Valley. They occupied the first house built in the village of Mineral Ridge in
1842. This was a log structure. Isaac Siddell is credited with having erected
the second gist mill in the Mahoning Valley, at Ellsworth.
Edward R. Edwards Sr. was a native of Wales, and was brought from the Country at the age of nine years old. He Grew up in Skuykill County, Pa where he married Elizabeth Davis1. Two years later he came to the Mahoning Valley, His intention was to locate in Cleveland, but instead he established him self at Weathsford, During the civil War he served three years and six months with the 20th Ohio Battalion. He was in many battles and nearly lost his life in the battle "above the clouds" at lookout Mountain. An artillery wagon on which he was riding was thrown over a cliff and his life was saved by his lodging in a tree. 2
After the war he engaged in the contracting business and erected some of the first industrial plants in the valley, He was associated with Jonathan Warner, Sr. in erecting the first furnace at Mineral Ridge. He also built the Schoolhouse of that town. He was a republican and very active member of the Presbyterian Church. After the death of his first wife he married Ellen Siddell and they made their home at Mineral Ridge, Edward Sr. died in 1916 3at the age of 87 years His second wife died in 1910 at the age of 76.The children from the first marriage were, Minnie, wife of Courtney Thompson, of Youngstown, John Edwards of Youngstown and Matha who died in 1895 the wife of E. E. Humes. The Three sons of Mrs. Ellen Siddell Edwards are R. C. Edwards who is a builder of homes in the San Francisco; Harry E. and Edward R. Jr.
Edward R. Edwards Jr. was the superintendent of construction for the building Committee during the erection of the McKinley Memorial at Niles. He was well equipped by early training and natural qualifications for his present buiness, and he and his brother have a large volume of work to their credit. They built the plant of the Western Reserve Steel Company at Warren for C. G. Thomas and also built Mahoning Valley Steel Plant, The Niles Car manufacturing Company and the Knox Pressed Weld Steel Company at Wheatland Ohio. Besides industrial construction they in 1919 at Youngstown to value of $200.000. These are all brick homes and were rapidly sold. The firm also erected twenty homes at Niles.Mr. Edwards married in 1901 Katie Bird, daughter of Emauel Bird of Pittsburgh. They have three daughters, Catherine, Sarah Estelle, and Mary Bird. Mr. Edwards is a republican, and he and his family are presbyterians.
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