HON. WILLIAM H. EDWARDS, attorney-at-law, was born in Marion Township,
November 30, 1841, and after the usual common school training, in 1865,
entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville, where he remained till the
following May, when he went to farming, and after accumulating enough to pay
his expenses, entered the Law Department of the University at Bloomington.
During the year 1869 he was admitted to practice at the bar of Bedford, and
located at Mitchell, where he has since remained;   in 1864 was Assessor of
Marion Township, and in 1868 was made Treasurer of Mitchell.  In 1872 he was
elected by the Republican party to the Legislature, serving a special and
regular term. December 8, 1868, he was married to Miss Cornelia McCoy, a
native of Ohio, and daughter of J. D. and Catharine (Ewing) McCoy, and one
child has been born to them--John H.  August 8, 1862, Mr. Edwards enlisted
in Company H, Sixty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
participated in the following battles:  Munfordville, Ky. (where he was
captured), Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Champion
Hills, Black River Bridge, and Siege of Vicksburg, where he was discharged
by reason of disability.  He is a member of the G. A. R.


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