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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901 - page 81-82
T. L. EDWARDS, M.D., one of the rising young physicians of Cuba City, Grant county, who has built up a promising practice, and is destined to be numbered among the leading representatives of the medical profession in Wisconsin, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in March, 1865, a son of T. J. and Margaret (THOMAS) EDWARDS, natives of South Wales.
These worthy people came when young to America, where they were married, and settled in Ohio. The father worked as a mate on an Ohio river steamer for a number of years, and then purchased a farm in Van Wert county, that State, where he lived until his death, in 1872. The good mother survived until 1892; both were consistent members of the Presbyterian Church, leading Christian lives. From the time he cast his first vote Mr. EDWADS adhered to the principles of the Republican party. To himself and wife were born: John, well educated in several schools and colleges in Ohio, is now principal of the Venedocia (Ohio) schools; he married Miss Mary A. JONES, of Ohio, but has no family. David H., now a resident of Venedocia, where he is the leading political factor, serving as county commissioner, notary public, etc., is in the real estate business; he married Mary D. JONES, and has five children, Sarah, now wife of D. J. EVANS, resides in Venedocia, where Mr. EVANS conducts a harness establishment and is postmaster; they have two children. Margaret died when fifteen. R. F. first studied theology, and later entered the ministry, being ordained in 1897 and sent to Canton, China, by the Presbyterian Church, from his native State, Ohio; he married Miss Eunice EDWARDS, of Cincinnati, a college graduate, who accompanied her husband to China; they have no family.
Our subject received his preliminary education in the schools of Ada, Ohio, and the Indiana Normal School, in 1890 entering Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1894. In June, of the same year, he came West, locating at Cuba City where he has built up a large practice, and been very successful with his eases.
In January, 1900, Dr. Edwards married Miss Anna R. HOGAN, of Cuba City, a daughter of Denis and Annie HOGAN, old pioneers of this locality, where Mrs. EDWARDS was born and reared. Politically Dr. EDWARDS has inherited his views, being as ardent a Republican as his father before him. Dr. EDWARDS is an active member of the Masonic fraternity at Georgetown, where he is very popular. From earliest childhood he has been brought up in the Presbyterian faith, and shows in his upright life the effects of early teachings.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck