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Albert G. Edwards


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Company K, 1st Missouri Cavalry
Page 303 and 304 of: Portrait and biographical album of Marshall County, Kansas: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the Presidents of the United States, Chapman Bros., 1889.
A. G. EDWARDS, M. D. Before entering upon the life of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch and who is a prominent physician and surgeon of Marysville, a few words regarding his parents will not be amiss. His father, Joseph Edwards, was born in Virginia and there lived until his maturity, being a farmer and stock-raiser. Moving to the famous Blue Grass region, he married Miss Hannah Morgan, who born him four sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to mature years. The father continued the business of stock-raising, removing to Clark County, Ill., in the year 1851, dying there in the fall of 1856. The mother survived until the year 1883. The parental family consisted of William M., now practicing physician in Colby, Kan.; Giles, who died in the army, during the Civil War; Levi, now deceased; our subject; Mrs. Matilda Maxie and Mrs. Malinda Barnett now widows residing in Illinois; Mrs. Sarah Mecker, also residing in Illinois , and Mrs. Frances Francis.
The subject of our sketch is a native of the Blue Grass State, where he was born Sept. 15, 1837, and where he remained until the age of fourteen, when his parents removed to Illinois. In the latter State he finished his education, graduating at Marshall College, after which he studied medicine with Dr. Frank White, professor of Materia Medica in St. Louis Medical College. After having read with Dr. White for sometime, Mr. Edwards took his lectures at the college in which his instructor was a professor, graduating in the class of ’61. Feeling that his country needed his services he determined to devote the energies of his young manhood to her and therefore enlisted in the Union service, being enrolled in the 1st Missouri Cavalry. He was with his regiment but a short time, being detailed to the post hospital at Jefferson Barracks, then engaged at the post hospital in Jefferson City, and later spending a year in the post hospital at Raleigh, Mo. After this hospital experience he spent some time in field service, then for eighteen months was fulfilling the duties of his profession in the general hospital on Hickory street, St. Louis, Mo. From this time until the close of the war he was in the field, taking an active part in the actions at Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove and a number of skirmishes. Although naturally a large man Mr. Edwards weighed only 130 pounds when discharged from the service, his health having been very much shattered by the arduous labors and exposure of those years of active patriotism. Soon after the close of the war our subject came to Marysville and located for practice, and is now the oldest resident doctor in the county.
During the busy days of hospital service in St. Louis, Dr. Edwards found time for wooing, and in 1864 was married in that city to Miss Carrie Wright, an estimable and educated lady. She was born in Mobile, Ala., and was the daughter of I. Wright and when a young lady removed to St. Louis with her widowed mother and lived in that city until after her marriage. To her was born one child, Lillian B., who still gladdens the hearts of her parents in the home circle.
Dr. Edwards is the most trusted surgeon in the county. For the last eight years he has held the position of local surgeon for the St. Joseph and Grand Island branch of the Union Pacific Railroad. He was one of the original members of the Northern Kansas Medical Society which was established in 1884, and was its first president. He was also a one time president of the Marshall County Medical Association and is at the present time Treasurer and Censor of that body and Vice-President of the Railroad Medical Society of Grand Island, Omaha & Kansas City. He also holds honorary membership in the Nebraska Railroad Society. Dr. Edwards was President of the Pension Examining Broad up to the time of Cleveland’s administration. He has been an active Republican worker but not an office seeker and he belongs to the Central Republican Committee of this Congressional District. He is a man of more than ordinary ability as the above facts will show, and is highly esteemed by all who know him, not only as a well read surgeon but as one of nature’s noblemen. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He is a warm personal friend of Dr. Livingston of Plattsmouth, Neb.

Thomas W. Plummer


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Company C, 6th Wisconsin Infantry
History of Allen and Woodson Counties, Kansas: embellished with portraits of well known people of these counties, with biographies of our representative citizens, cuts of public buildings and a map of each county / Edited and Compiled by L. Wallace Duncan and Chas. F. Scott. Iola Registers, Printers and Binders, Iola, Kan.: 1901

THOMAS W. PLUMMER.
THOMAS W. PLUMMER, whose business activities have largely connected him with the substantial improvement and upbuilding of the west, has for sixteen years engaged in handling real estate in Yates Center and is one of the well known and reliable business men of the city. He is a native of Lincolnshire, England, born July 8, 1839, but since early youth has been a resident of this republic. His father, John B. Plummer, was also a native of the "Merrie Isle" and there married Mary E. Wilkinson. He was a farmer by occupation and in 1846 he came with his family to the United States, locating in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. where he resided until 1859, when he went to Prairie du Chien, that state, there spending his remaining days, his death occurring in 1890, when he had reached the ripe age of four score years. In his family were sixteen children, nine of whom are yet living: Emma, now Mrs. Shipman, a widow, of New York city; Thomas W., of this review; John W., who resides in Wilmington, North Carolina; Mary, wife of Dr. Stiger, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; Ellen, wfe[sic] of George M. Rising, of Minneapolis, Mnnesota;[sic] Edward, of Augusta, Wisconsin; Harry W., of San Francisco, California, and Sarah W., wife of M. J. Scanlon, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and John W. Plummer, of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Thomas W. Plummer was but seven years of age when he bade adieu to the land of his birth and came with his parents to the new world, he pursued a common school education in Wisconsin and at the age of seventeen years left the parental home, going into the pineries where he was engaged in cutting, sawing and hauling logs for two years. On the expiration of that period he went to Grand Raven, Michigan, and worked on the construction of the Milwaukee & Grand Haven Railroad for two years, acting as time-keeper and book-keeper for tthe[sic] contractor. In the meantime his parents had removed to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and he there joined them, being at that place at the time of the inauguration of the Civil war. He had watched with interest the disturbance in the South and the growth of the spirit of rebellion and resolved that if an attempt at secession was made he would strike a blow for the defense of the Union. Accordingly, in April, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixth Wisconsin infantry, under Colonel Lysander Cutler, and was mustered into service at Madison, Wisconsin, on the 16th of July, the regiment being attached to the Army of the Potomac at Washington, where he remained until the spring of 1862, with McClellan’s forces. He then went South with General McDowell’s army and was in the engagements at Slaughter Mine and Gainesville, was also in the second battle of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh Crossing, Chancellorsville, Mine Run and the Wilderness, after which his company went up the James river to Petersburg. Mr. Plummer was commissioned second lieutenant at Arlington Heights was made first lieutenant and was promoted captain on the Potomac river just before the engagement at Chancellorsville, while in 1864 he was breveted major and commanded his regiment a part of the time.
Major Plummer left the army on the 16th day of July, 1864, and returned to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he engaged in the stock business for some time. His residence in that city covered altogther an aggregate of fourteen years. On leaving there he entered the service of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, then constructing its line, being employed as bridge foreman. He followed the line out to Ogden, Utah, and then returned to do bridge work, in the capacity of
foreman, on the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, being thus engaged for more than a year. He next went to the Red River of the North and for a time followed the business of trading with the Indians, after which, he came to Kansas, locating in Woodson County, where he carried on farming until 1876. That year witnessed his removal to Texas and locating near Dallas, he furnished wood and ties, under contract to the T. & P. R. R. Co. and Cotton Belt Railroad Company. In 1881 he returned to Woodson County, where he again engaged in farming for two years and then sold his land and took up his abode in Yates Center, where for sixteen years he has conducted real estate transactions, handling some valuable property. He has a comprehensive knowledge of realty values and of favorable locations, and is thus competent to advise his clients to their best advantage.
Major Plummer was married in Woodson County in December, 1878, to Miss Mary F. Hamilton, daughter of Alexander Hamilton, and their children are Bernard W., Mary Lenore and Claire S. The Major was reared in the Democratic faith, cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas and was a Democrat until 1901. Socially he is identified with the Order of Red Men and with the Grand Army of the Republic, and as a citizen he is as loyal to his country and her best interests as when the tocsin of war sounded and he went to the front as one of the boys in blue, to return with the rank of major as the recognition of three year’s faithful and loyal service.