Biography of John H. Edwards



Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. 

Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912.



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JOHN H. EDWARDS came to Kansas as general ticket agent for the Union Pacific railroad, eastern division, before 1867. May 

27, 1867, Governor Crawford appointed Mr. Edwards a justice of the peace for Ellsworth county, and on June 22, 1867. one of 

the first county commissioners of Ellsworth county. The commissioners held their first meeting July 9, 1867. In that year 

he was proprietor of the Anderson House in Ellsworth. He was elected a member of tbe house of representatives from Ellis 

county in 1870 and 1872. In 1878 and 1874 be was a member of the state senate. In 1874 he served as register of the land 

office. (See correspondence of Mr. Edwards about the last Indian raid, in the secretaryÕs report for 1911.) Mr. Edwards 

died at Kansas City. Kan., about January, 1889, and was buried in Oak Grove cemetery.



(Included in the article: "Mother Smith, of Ellis, page 348)