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The text that follows is reproduced from (the report of the) Twenty-Sixth Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 10th, 1895.
Mr. Edwards was born in and appointed Cadet from Illinois. He entered in 1827 and graduated in 1832. He became a Brevet Second Lieutenant in the Mounted Rangers and the same in the First Dragoons the next year. He resigned in May, 1835, and was a merchant in St. Louis, Mo., till 1865. He held the offices of Bank Commissioner and Brigadier-General of Militia, and was Assistant Treasurer of the United States at St. Louis from 1865 p124 to 1886. In 1871 he was a member of the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy.
The Association has been unable to ascertain any further information concerning Mr. Edwards, letters to members of his family not being answered.
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