Edwards, Amory, 1814-1881.

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Served as United States consul to Buenos Aires from 1840 to 1845; appointed consul general of Nicaragua in the United States in 1851. Was a partner in the Honduras Interoceanic Railway Company, formed in the early 1850s. E.G. Squier, who acted as agent and secretary for the latter company, describes Edwards as its last active agent, at the time that Edwards communicated information about the Jicaque Indians and their language.

From the description of Vocabulario de la lengua de los Xicaques / por Amory Edwards. [between 1858 and 1878] (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 537164712

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Place Name Admin Code Country
Honduras
Subject
Indians of Central America
Jicaque language
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Person

Birth 1814

Death 1881

Spanish; Castilian,

Central American Indian languages,

Nahuatl languages,

English

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