BIOGRAPHY: John L. 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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  JOHN L. EDWARDS, ex-postmaster of Belsano, Cambria county, and a leading 
business man of near that place, is a son of Lewis L. and Mary Davis (nee James) 
Edwards, and was born in Cambria township, this county, September 18, 1846.
     He was reared upon a farm and educated in the public schools. In 1868, he 
located upon a farm near Nicktown, this county, and cultivated that farm three 
and one-half years. Subsequent to this he followed blacksmithing eight years at 
Belsano, and then located upon a farm near Belsano in Black Lick township, and 
has resided there since, engaged in agricultural pursuits, lumbering, etc. He is 
an extensive land-owner, owning in all four hundred acres of improved land and 
six hundred acres of timber land, all underlaid with coal and minerals. He also 
owns seven acres in the village of Belsano, which is well improved, having a 
good house and other buildings upon it. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church, of which he has been steward and trustee eighteen years. 
Politically he is a republican, and served as postmaster of Belsano, from 1871 
to 1879. He has also been assessor and auditor of his township.
     Fraternally, he is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M.; Belsano 
Council, No. 182, Jr. O. U. A. M., which latter lodge he served as treasurer in 
1894-'95-'96.
     March 26, 1866, he married Eliza J., a daughter of Edward Thomas, by whom 
he has seven children: Walter, on the old homestead; William, in California; 
Minnie B., the wife of Frank Amond, of Vintondale; Morton, a teacher in the 
public schools of Black Lick township; Vinton, Oscar and Bertha at home.