Edmunds
GEORGE FRANKLIN, an American lawyer; born in Richmond, Vt., Feb. 1, 1828; received a common school education; began practicing law in 1849; and two years later removed to Burlington, Vt. In 1866 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill an unexpired term, and was thrice re-elected for full terms. He was the author of the act of March 22, 1882, known as the "Edmunds Act," which provided for the suppression of polygamy in Utah and the disfranchisement of any person convicted of practicing it. He was also the author of the "Anti-trust Law" of 1890. During the term of President Arthur he was president pro tempore of the Senate. In 1897 he became chairman of the Monetary Commission which had been appointed by the executive committee of the Indianapolis Monetary Conference. After this service Mr. Edmunds returned to the profession of the law. He died in 1919.
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Edred
King of England, son of Edward the Elder, succeeded to the throne on the murder of his brother, Edmund I., in May, 946. He quelled a rebellion of the Northumbrian Danes, and died in 955.
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Edson
CYRUS, an American bacteriologist; born in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1857; was graduated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1881 and in the following year was appointed a sanitary inspector. In 1893- 1895 he was health commissioner of New York. Dr. Edson discovered a new treatment for consumption, malaria, and other germ diseases, in 1896, which he named aseptolin. He published about 80 medical and sanitary papers, and invented many surgical instruments. He died in New York, N. Y., in 1903.
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Edward the Elder
(870-925), king of England. He succeeded his father, Alfred the Great, in 901. Edward continued the work of unifying the kingdom, which had been carried on so well by his distinguished father. He annexed Mercia. He repelled the attacks of foreign Danes. He erected strong fortifications on the Welsh and Northumbrian frontiers. Edward the Martyr (963-979), king of England. He succeeded his father Edgar in 975. He was the oldest son and was entitled to the throne, but his succession was opposed by a party that claimed that Edward was too much under the influence of the monks. In fact, his coronation was brought about through the influence of Dunstan. Edward ruled but four years. While hunting in Dorsetshire he called at Corfe Castle, the home of his stepmother Elfrida. As he sat on his horse drinking a glass of liquor, one of Elfrida's servants stabbed him in the back. He dug his spurs into his horse, but he became so faint with loss of blood as to lose his seat. He was found dragging in the stirrup,--dead. The manner and cause of his death gained him the name of "The Martyr."
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Edwards, Jonathan
Jonathan (1703-1758), a celebrated New England divine and theologian. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, October 5, 1703. Died Princeton, New Jersey , March 22, 1758. Graduated at Yale, 1717. After a short term as a tutor in that institution he became pastor at Northampton, where he remained twenty-three years, participating in revival work. In 1750 he was dismissed by the Northampton church and became a missionary among the Massachusetts Indians. In 1758 he was elected president of Princeton College, and, as stated, died the same year. Edwards had a powerful intellect. He was an impressive preacher, somber and even gloomy in his religious opinions and sentiments, but earnest, unaffected, and nobly conscientious. Of many theological works his Freedom of the Will and Original Sin are most noted. Edwards' life and work were so colored by a somber theology that posterity has not done credit to one of the sweetest spirits of the age. Believing, as he did, that his fellowmen were tottering on the brink of the bottomless pit, no trivial matters were worthy of the attention of an immortal soul; and yet we find in him distinct traces of the future Emerson and his school of calm thinkers. "True religion," said he, "in a great measure consists in holy affections. A love of divine things for the beauty and sweetness of their moral excellency is the spring of all holy affection." See Dwight ; Burr
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Edwardsville
a city of Illinois, It is on the county-seat of Madison co. the Wabash, the Illinois Traction, the Toledo, St. Louis and Western, the Litchfield and Madison, and the St. Louis, Troy and Eastern railroads. The city is the center of an agricultural and coal mining region, and has manufactures of tools, plumbing supplies, brass finishings, radiators, buggies, etc. There is a public library. Pop. (1910) 5,014; (1920) 5,336.
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, and is entirely a residential suburb of Wilkes-Barre. Pop. (1910) 8,407; (1920) 9,027.
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Edwin
King of Northumbria, was the son of Ælla, King of Deira, who died in 588. His father died when he was but 3 years old, whereupon Æthelric, King of Bernicia, seized his territories. The child was carried into north Wales, and there brought up. At length he found refuge with Rædwald, King of East Anglia, who took up arms on his behalf against Æthelfrith, the son of his oppressor, and defeated him in a great battle, in which the usurper fell (617). Edwin now obtained his father's kingdom of Deira, and ere long overran Bernicia, thus bringing under his rule a united Northumbria. He died in 634.
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Edwy
King of England, son of Edmund I., 'succeed I., succeeded his uncle Edred in 955. Taking part with the secular clergy against the monks, he incurred the confirmed enmity of the latter. The papal party, headed by Dunstan, was strong enough to excite a rebellion, by which Edwy was driven from the throne to make way for his brother Edgar. He died in 959, being probably not more than 18 or 19 years old.
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Egan
MAURICE FRANCIS, an American author; born in Philadelphia, May 24, 1852; was graduated at La Salle College. Subsequently he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Notre Dame, Ind., and Professor of English Language and Literature in the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. He was appointed U. S. Minister to Denmark in 1907. His experiences in that post he described in "Ten Years on the German Frontier" (1919). He is the author of 30 books, including: "That Girl of Mine" (1879); "Preludes" (1880), a book of poems; "Songs and Sonnets" (1885); "Stories of Duty" (1885); "A Garden of Roses" (1886); "The Life Around Us" (1886); "Everlasting St. Francis" (1912), etc.
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