Husband Edward Tudor Edwards 1 2
Born: 28 Jun 1877 - Darfield, Staffordshire, England 1 2
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Father: Edward Edwards ( -1923) 1 2
Mother: Sarah A. Tudor ( -1911) 1 2
Marriage: Apr 1921 3
Other Spouse: Dora B. Bailey ( -1919) 2 - 26 Aug 1908 3 4
Wife Eleanor Culbertson Sterling 3 5
Born: 25 May 1892 5
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Father: James Marshall Sterling (1855- ) 6 7
Mother: Hannah Katherine "Kate" McConnell (1861-Bet 1905/1926) 7 8
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1 F Eleanor J. Edwards 3
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2 F Katherine A. Edwards 3
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General Notes: Husband - Edward Tudor Edwards
He attended the public schools of Duquesne, Pennsylvania, until the age of thirteen years, when he found employment in the great steel mills of that region. He did not, however, abandon his studies on this account but continued to attend night school at McKeesport, preparing himself meanwhile for college. Eventually he entered the University of Pittsburgh, where he took a course in mechanical engineering and graduated with the class of 1903. The technical training which he gained opened up a much larger field of endeavor for Mr. Edwards than that of a steel worker in the mills, and it was only shortly after completing his studies that he secured a position as draftsman with the United States Steel Company at Clairton, Pennsylvania. He remained with this concern only about six months and then entered the employ of the Firth-Sterling Steel Company at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he had a much better position in the mechanical department of the company. Here he won a quick promotion, and he was shortly afterwards advanced to a post where he had entire charge of the melting department. His work in this position won him a reputation wider than that of the concern which employed him, and he soon came to be looked upon as one of the best informed and most progressive of the younger generation of mechanical engineers in that part of Pennsylvania. In 1910 he moved to Latrobe and there became one of the founders and active organizers of the Vanadium Alloys Steel Company. When this important concern was finally organized, he was elected its first president and manager. Five years later, in 1915, Mr. Edwards was again concerned in the organization of an important company. This time it was the Latrobe Electric Steel Company, of which Mr. Edwards was the vice-president and manager. This firm was engaged in the production of the highest grades of steel for special purposes, and it became one of the most successful and prosperous concerns in the community.
Mr. Edwards did not confine his activities entirely to his business operations, however. He did not take an active part in politics, yet he was known as a considerable influence on the Republican side of public affairs and has always taken a keen interest in local issues of all sorts. He is a member of Americus Republican Club of Pittsburgh. He is a Presbyterian in his religious belief, and was a liberal contributor to the many and varied charities of that church in the region. He was an active member of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania, of the Latrobe Club, and the University Club of Pittsburgh. He was a Mason, affiliating with Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Syria Temple, of Pittsburgh. He was always active in athletics and outdoor sports, for which he had a very strong taste and was specially well known as a baseball player in his college days and he long maintained a keen interest in this sport.
His parents migrated to the United States in 1880 and settled in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, class of 1903, with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. His first position was in the employ of the Carnegie Steel Company, then with the Firth-Sterling Steel Company, of McKeesport, and when he left the latter concern in 1910, he held the position of superintendent of the melting department. The same year he removed to Latrobe as president of the Vanadium-Alloys Steel Company, so continuing until 1915, when he became vice-president and general manager of the Latrobe Electric Steel Company.
The Latrobe Electric Steel Company was founded in 1913 by Charles W. Guttzeit and associates, for the purpose of manufacturing steel castings. In 1915 a re-organization took place, when the plant began to manufacture high-speed tool steel, alloy tool steels, and carbon tool steels. The new management, with M. W. Saxman, president, E. T. Edwards as vice-president and general manager, and Charles W. Guttzeit as vice-president and sales manager, greatly enlarged the plant and the scope of its operations, until they came to employ upwards of four hundred and fifty men, the establishment including twenty-seven acres with its buildings. The company maintained a playground in the Fifth Ward for the benefit of the children of its employees and the children in the community. It was the means whereby several playgrounds were started and maintained by the borough in other wards. The company also carried insurance on all in its employ. During the World War their plant was conducted upon an industrial basis for the United States Government.
In his political convictions, Mr. Edwards supported the principles of the Republican Party.
His fraternal affiliations were with McKeesport Lodge, No. 375, Free and Accepted Masons; McKeesport Commandery, Knights Templar; Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the American Iron and Steel Institute; and the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He was also a member of the Greensburg, the Latrobe, and the Pike Run Country clubs, and the Pittsburgh Athletic and Latrobe Social clubs. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian Church.