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He was the discoverer of natural gas in the Kanawha Valley region and was a pro- moter of the company that afterwards piped the gas into Charleston and supplied the city with this fuel in 1895. He secured the building of 20 miles of railroad and the opening up of some 15 mines in the valley of Paint Creek. He has been the direct means in interesting many millions of eastern capital in the development of our timber lands, especially in Webster County, where one deal included 34,000 acres, and required ten years to consummate it. He is now interested in coal mining and in oil properties in West Virginia and Ohio to a large extent. He is a member of the University Club and the Alpha Delta Phi Club of New York City and of the Republican Club of the City of New York, also a member of the Duquesne Club of Pittsburg. Mr. Edwards is a most excellent example of the product of higher education and refinement, and might well be taken as a model for ambitious young men to follow. As a citizen, statesman, scholar, author and captain of industry, he has but few equals. Mr. Edwards, who with his family reside in Kanawha County, is perhaps as well known as any man in the state.
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Hon. William Seymour Edwards. T IS familv came to New England in 1641 and settled at Hartford, Conn. His ancestor, Rev. Johnathan Edwards lived at Stockbridge, Mass., on the Housa- toric, where he preached to the Indians and whites until later called to become the President of Princeton University, then the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. He preached to the grandsires and forebearers of many of the good people of Upshur County, whose ancestors in later years emigrated from the Housatonic Valley to Virginia. ( )n his mother ' s side, his great grandfather, Edward Antil III, was a member of Wash- ington ' s Staff, and a friend of Hamilton and one of the founders of the military order of the Cincinnati. Mr. Edwards ' grandmother was brought up as Alexander Hamilton ' s ail ' pted daughter, her father and mother having just died at the close of the Revolution. His father and grandfather came to Virginia from Xew York about 1847. They opened ill! ' first coal mines in the Kanawha Valley in 1852. William Seymour Edwards studied at the great public school called Trinity Ci liege School, at Port Hope, Carada, aid thence went to Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, where he took the degree of B. S. Two years later he received the degree of L.L.. B. Cum Laude, at the Law school of Columbia University in New York City. Later he was admitted to the Bar in West Virgiria. Among books he has no mean reputation. He wrote a book entitled Coals and Cokes in West Virginia, which has been, quoted as a standard authority both in this country and abroad. He has written mary articles for the press ard published some speeches on public questions, especially those concerning the more liberal provision for the education of the children of the state, and has recently published a book entitled. Into The Yukon, detailing a journey to the far Northwest and Alaska, and will shortly issue another book on travel in Mexico and Cuba. These books and writirgs have given him a literary and scientific standing in the country at large. In politics, he has twice been a member of the State Legislature, and was the first Republican to lie elected Speaker of the House of Delegates, in thirty years, aril presided over that body in the sessions of 1894-5. He was candidate for Corgress in the Third Distriit of West Virginia in 1898, and would have been the candidate for Corgress in 1904. except for the ascendancy of notoriously corrupt methods in certain counties in the Dis- trict. He is a member of the American Mechanics, Red Men. ( )dd Fellows. K. of P. and i- a Smttish Rite Mason of the 32d degree. In 1902 he was married in London, England, to the daughter of the late General C. T. Christensen of New York, Brigadier General U. S. Army and General of Long Llard Division, X. ( ' ,. X. Y.
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