Charles Edwards

Charles Edwards, the second son of Ninian W. Edwards, born July 6, 1846, in Springfield, was attending Yale college in the early part of the Rebellion, and left there in the latter part of 1863 to fill a position in the Commissary depart. of the US army. After the war he was an instructor in Bryant & Stratton's commercial college in Springfield for a short time. Charles Edwards was marr. in Springfield, Feb 18, 1868, to Mary Hickox, dau. of Hon. Virgil Hickox. They have one child, Edith, and reside in Lagrange, Cook Co, IL. Charles Edwards was connected with the Illinois State Journal, and at one time was one of the proprietors of the Illinois State Register. He removed to Chicago to take an interest in the Shober-Carqueville Lithographing Company, of Chicago. He was secretary and treasurer of the Rokker-O'Donnell Printing Company, of Chicago. Historic Sketches of The EDWARDS AND TODD FAMILIES And Their Descendants, 1523-1895, by Georgia Hortense Edwards http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/EDWARDS/1998-09/09054...