During the busy days of hospital service in St. Soon after the close of the war our subject came to Marysville and located for practice, and is now the oldest resident doctor in the county. Edwards weighed only 130 pounds when discharged from the service, his health having been very much shattered by the arduous labors and exposure of those years of active patriotism. From this time until the close of the war he was in the field, taking an active part in the actions at Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove and a number of skirmishes. After this hospital experience he spent some time in field service, then for eighteen months was fulfilling the duties of his profession in the general hospital on Hickory street, St. He was with his regiment but a short time, being detailed to the post hospital at Jefferson Barracks, then engaged at the post hospital in Jefferson City, and later spending a year in the post hospital at Raleigh, Mo. Feeling that his country needed his services he determined to devote the energies of his young manhood to her and therefore enlisted in the Union service, being enrolled in the 1st Missouri Cavalry. Edwards took his lectures at the college in which his instructor was a professor, graduating in the class of ’61. Frank White, professor of Materia Medica in St. In the latter State he finished his education, graduating at Marshall College, after which he studied medicine with Dr. 15, 1837, and where he remained until the age of fourteen, when his parents removed to Illinois. The subject of our sketch is a native of the Blue Grass State, where he was born Sept. Sarah Mecker, also residing in Illinois, and Mrs. Malinda Barnett now widows residing in Illinois Mrs. Giles, who died in the army, during the Civil War Levi, now deceased our subject Mrs. The parental family consisted of William M., now practicing physician in Colby, Kan. The father continued the business of stock-raising, removing to Clark County, Ill., in the year 1851, dying there in the fall of 1856. Moving to the famous Blue Grass region, he married Miss Hannah Morgan, who born him four sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to mature years. His father, Joseph Edwards, was born in Virginia and there lived until his maturity, being a farmer and stock-raiser. Before entering upon the life of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch and who is a prominent physician and surgeon of Marysville, a few words regarding his parents will not be amiss. Company K, 1st Missouri Cavalry and 304 of: Portrait and biographical album of Marshall County, Kansas: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chapman Bros., 1889.
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