Journal of Esias Edwards, 1830-1882. [microfilm].

Edwards family.

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Edwards, Esias, 1812-1897.

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Esias Edwards was born in Pike County, Missouri, on April 10, 1812. He moved with his family to Quincy, Illinois, in the 1820s and remained in Illinois for the next twenty years. He served on a mission to the Southern States before departing for the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In 1859 Edwards and Leroy Kent started the first sawmill in Cache Valley's Millville. Edwards died in St. George, Utah, on June 8, 1897. From the description of Diary and autobiography of Esias Edwards, c.1856-18...