Samuel H. Edwards letters 1862-1866, 1873, 1879

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Samuel H. Edwards letters 1862-1866, 1873, 1879

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Samuel H. Edwards (1842-1879) was born in New York City on August 20, 1842. He served with the United States Military Telegraphic Corps during the American Civil War and later became the chief telegraph operator of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company in New York. Thomas Edison is said to have described Edwards as "the best manipulator of wires in the United States." Edwards married Mary L. ("Molly") Hulse in 1866. He died on July 3, 1879 at the age of thirty-seven, several weeks after his son, Harry, had died at birth. A coroner declared "paralysis of the brain" as the cause of Edwards' death.

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Hulse, Mary L

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United States. Military Telegraph Corps

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The U.S. Military Telegraph Corps was initiated in the first days of the Civil War. Secretary of War Simon Cameron sought the aid of Thomas A. Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad in creating the service. He in turn enlisted the help of David Strouse of the American Telegraph Company, who extended his company's lines from Pennsylvania to the War Department in Washington, DC. Formal executive sanction of the Corps came in October 1861 from Abraham Lincoln. Congress permitted the establ...

Edwards, Samuel H., 1842-1879.

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Samuel H. Edwards (1842-1879) was born in New York City on August 20, 1842. He served with the United States Military Telegraphic Corps during the American Civil War and later became the chief telegraph operator of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company in New York. Thomas Edison is said to have described Edwards as "the best manipulator of wires in the United States." Edwards married Mary L. ("Molly") Hulse in 1866. He died on July 3, 1879 at the age of thirty-seven, several weeks after his...