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Mary and Thomas Edison had three children in their 13 years of marriage. However, since none of them had children of their own, there are no living direct descendants of Thomas and Mary Stilwell Edison.
Between his two wives, Mary and Mina, he fathered six children, a typical family size for the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Edison was a famous and wealthy man and being his child was often a difficult experience.
Thomas’ first wife, Mary, had died the previous year, and he had three children at home. Thomas was smitten with Mina, noting in his diary that he might have to take out an accident policy...
Mina Miller was born on July 6, 1865, the seventh of eleven children. She met Thomas Edison at the home of a mutual friend of her father and Edison, the inventor Ezra Gilliland. Her future husband claims he taught her Morse code so that they could converse in secret, even while the family watched.
On December 25, 1871, at the age of 24, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops. They had three children: Marion Estelle Edison (1873–1965), nicknamed "Dot" [131] Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876–1935), nicknamed "Dash" [132]
Mary and Thomas Edison had three children in their 13 years of marriage. However, since none of them had children of their own, there are no living direct descendants of Thomas and Mary Stilwell Edison. Last updated: February 26, 2015.
Marriage to Thomas Edison and children. Mina Miller met Thomas Edison at the home of the inventor Ezra Gilliland, a mutual friend of her father and Edison, [3] in Boston in 1885. After he taught her Morse code, he used it to ask her to marry him. [4] They married on February 24, 1886.