Edward Henry Avery

He was a graduate of Yale, 1844; a lawyer: lieut.-col. in the national guard ; president of the Auburn (N. Y.) Water Works, of the Auburn Gas Company, and of the National Bank of Auburn ; director of the Empire Telephone Company, of the Cayuga County Savings Bank, of the Auburn Paper Company, and of the Auburn Wagon Works; also a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church.

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 645, Vol. II, p. 1013-4

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AVERY, EDWARD HENRY. Born in Columbus, N. Y., August 18, 1824; educated in the public schools of the city, and at Yale College, from which he graduated in 1844; read law in the offices of Clark & Underwood in Auburn, and was admitted to the bar in 1848, commencing practice at Bath, N. Y., where he remained three years after which he returned to Auburn and formed a partnership with the Honorable George Underwood Sr. Three years later Mr. James R Cox was taken into the firm which enjoyed a large and lucrative business until its dissolution by the death of the senior member in 1859• after which time, for many years, the firm of Cox & Avery, its successor, was ranked among the leading law firms of Central New York. Mr. Avery served as the president of the Auburn Gas Light Company, the Auburn Water Works Company, and many other corporations in the capacity of trustee or director, in the activities of which business life he developed and demonstrated great executive ability and in May, 1883, was tendered and accepted the office of president of the National Bank of Auburn; retired from his law practice, and thereafter devoted his entire time and abilities to the duties of his office. He died at his home in the city on May 5, 1908

Source: History of Cayuga County, New York By Cayuga County Historical Society

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