The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 30 Jan 1901, Page 6. If
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"Rev. Ebenezer Edwards died at his home in Allentown after an illness of two weeks,
grip and typhoid fever. Rev. Mr. Edwards was a retired Baptist clergyman and was a highly
cultured man.
"Deceased was born in Llangollen, North Wales, and was the son of a Baptist minister.
At an early age he went to college at Haverfordwest and was ordained to the ministry at
Pembroke, South Wales. In 1850 he came to American and had charges at Danville and
Pittston, Pa., also in Cincinnati. Later he took a course of study in Colgate University,
in Hamilton, Madison County, N.Y. At the close of his studies he received an appointment
to go as a missionary to Assam, India, and went to his native land to prepare his outfit.
While visiting relatives and before embarking he received word from the missions rooms
that is was not safe to send out missionaries on account of the Sepoy mutiny. Later
sickness interfered with his intended work and he later opened a mission in Newport, South
Wales. From there he went to Hartlepool, Durham County England. His missionary
aspirations thus being thwarted, he desired to make America his permanent home. His first
work on his return was !
opening a mission station at Brewster in connection with serving a charge in
Dykesman's and Croton, N.Y. From there he went to Shelby, Orleans County, N.Y. Then
he located at Webster, Monroe County, afterward going to Wilkes-Barre, and then to
Minersville, Schuylkill County, from which place he went to Allentown to live retired. He
frequently took prizes for successful essays at eisteddfods. He took first prize at the
World's Fair for an essay entitled "Welshmen as factors in the formation and
development of the United States Republic".
"He is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. D.E. Miles, and one granddaughter.
Funeral was on Tuesday. - Allentown Chronicle"
Nancy Cook
Pasadena, MD, USA