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 HISTORY of CRAWFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
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Meadville -
L. F. EDSON,
grocer, Meadville, was born in Bloomfield Township, this
county, April 15, 1837, and is a son of Chelos and
Julia Ann (Bloomfield) Edson.
His mother was a daughter of Stephen Bloomfield,
from whom the township was named, and who came to this
county in 1815, and settled on a farm. Our subject's
father was born in Massachusetts; came to this county at an
early day, settled on a farm and raised a family of thirteen
children, of whom L. F. is the sixth. He received a
common school education, and devoted himself to farming
until he and two of his brothers enlisted in the army.
One of the brothers who was in the war is now elected
Prothonotary of this
county. Our subject enlisted in 1863 in Company I,
Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was
discharged in 1865 for disability. Since he returned
home he has been in mercantile business. He was, twice
married, on first occasion, September 12, 1861, to Esther
A. Stilson, who died, and Mr. Edson then married,
June 12, 1878, Amanda S. Harris, who bore him two
children: Leon and Roscoe. Our subject
has served two terms as Justice of the Peace in Bloomfield
and Steuben Townships, and has been School Director,
Collector, etc. In politics he is a Republican.
Source: History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania,
Illustrated, Publ. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885 - Page
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