L. F. Edson

biography

Edson, L. F., grocer, Meadville, was born in Bloomfield Township, this county, April 15, 1837, and is a son of Chelos and Julia Ann (Bloomfield) Edson. His mother was a daughter of Stephen Bloomfield, from whom the township was named, and who came to this county in 1815, and settled on a farm. Our subject’s father was born in Massachusetts; came to this county at an early day, settled on a farm and raised a family of thirteen children, of whom L. F. is the sixth. He received a common school education, and devoted himself to farming until he and two of his brothers enlisted in the army. One of the brothers who was in the war is now elected Prothonotary of this county. Our subject enlisted in 1863 in Company I, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged in 1865 for disability. Since he returned home he has been in mercantile business. He was twice married, on first occasion, September 12, 1861, to Esther A. Stilson, who died, and Mr. Edson then married, June 12, 1878, Amanda S. Harris, who bore him two children: Leon and Boscoe. Our subject has served two terms as Justice of the Peace in Bloomfield and Steuben Townships, and has been School Director, Collector, etc. In politics he is a Republican.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 735-736.