BIOGRAPHY: Elias EDWARDS, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 189
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ELIAS EDWARDS, a prosperous and well-to-do farmer of Black Lick township, 
Cambria county, this State, is a son of Lewis L. and Mrs. Anna Davis (nee James) 
Edwards, and was born in Cambria township, this county, October 11, 1844.
     He was reared upon a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits, together 
with lumbering all his life. In 1870 he bought a farm, covering one hundred and 
fifty acres, and he has added to it by purchase, until he now owns five hundred 
acres, situated in Black Lick township, one hundred of which is cleared and 
under a good state of cultivation; the remainder is covered with first-class 
timber.
     Near the close of the late Civil War, on February 25, 1865, Mr. Edwards 
enlisted in the Federal army at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in Company H, One 
Hundred and Ninety-second regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer infantry, and served 
until August 25, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Harper's Ferry, 
Virginia.
     He is a member of John M. Jones Post, No. 556 G. A. R., at Ebensburg, and 
is a republican in politics. His marriage with Eliza J. Davis, a daughter of the 
late Thomas Davis, of Black Lick township, was celebrated October 19, 1870. To 
this marriage seven children have been born: Elizabeth and Rowland are both 
deceased; Clark, Ebenezer, Thomas, Stanley and May are at home with their 
parents.