Newton Co., IN Bio

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   WILLIAM F.J. EDWARDS, teacher, was born June 11, 1843, in Bartholomew
County, Indiana, and is a son of James and Sarah (Edmondson-Chenoweth)
Edwards, both natives of Kentucky.  The former died in August, 1854, in
his fiftieth year; he was an official member of the Christian Church,
his wife being a member.  They had five children, four of whom are 
living--Arthur L., James H., Mary A. and William F. J.  The two former
are preachers in said church.  The mother died in her sixty-sixth year
in August, 1878.
   William came with his parents to Clinton County, Indiana, in 1845,
and to White County in 1852.  His early school advantages were limited,
but by close application he procured a license to teach at the age of 
twenty-four.  For two years he was engaged in going to school, and 
teaching, then farmed for three years, when, being called again to 
teaching, he abandoned farming and prepared himself therefor.  During 
this interval, he had attended the Burnettsville High School and 
Northern Indiana Normal and Business Institute at Valparaiso, Indiana.
   He joined Kentland Lodge, I.O.O.G, in 1882; he is a Republican, and 
in 1876 received the nomination for Surveyor of White County.  He was 
elected by a handsome majority, and during that year was Principal and 
Superintendent of Burnettsville High School.  He has been a teacher
for six years in Jefferson Township, and in 1882 taught in Iroquois 
County, Illinois.
   Mr. Edwards is very successful, and was chosen, in 1882, to assist
in the County Normal; will also assist the present year.  In April 1869,
he married Miss Emma Gates, of Perry County, Ohio, who died in March, 
1870, leaving a child two weeks old, which also died.  He was next 
married, December 25, 1872, to Miss Terrissa E. Wolf, of White County,
a native of Athens County, Ohio.  She had twelve years' experience in 
teaching, having taught in the graded school of Kentland, in the 
Primary Department at Burnettsville in 1876, and the following year had
charge of the Reynolds Public School.  She has also been eminently
successful in her work.  She was formerly a Baptist, having a brother,
William L., a minister, but now she and her husband are both members
of the Christian Church.  Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are among the progressive
teachers of Newton County, and have lately been elected Principal and 
Grammar School teacher in the Walcott Graded School.


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