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John B. and Lydia Edwards House is a historic home located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York.It is a two-story, rectangular frame residence built between 1834 and 1835. Its owner John B. Edwards was abolitionist Gerrit Smith's agent at Oswego and the house is well documented as a way station on the Underground Railro
Edwards was born in Beekmans Precinct in Dutchess County, New York on August 6, 1781. He received his education in the common schools. From 1806 to 1812, he served as the Sheriff of Montgomery County, New York and as the keeper of the Johnstown Jail. Later Edwards moved to Ephrata, New York in Fulton County, New York.
Robert Edwards (supposedly died c.1738) [1] was a Welsh buccaneer who descendants claim was given 77 acres (310,000 m 2) of largely unsettled Manhattan by Queen Anne of the Kingdom of Great Britain for his services in disrupting Spanish sea lanes. Edwards is said to have leased his New York property to the brothers John and George Cruger for 99 ...
John Edwards (18 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Family of John Edwards" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Matthias Jacob Bovee (July 24, 1793 – September 12, 1872) was an American farmer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1835 to 1837. [ 1 ] Biography
John Jay (1745–1829), 1st Chief Justice of the United States, 2nd Governor of New York, and 8th President of the Continental Congress; David Paterson (born 1954), 55th Governor of New York, first African American governor and lieutenant governor of New York; George Pataki (born 1945), 53rd Governor of New York, governor during the 9/11 attacks
Edwards was a vocal critic of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, calling the surge the "McCain Doctrine" in reference to Sen. John McCain's support for the strategy. [33] He has stated that he cannot guarantee to pull all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of the next presidential term in 2013, but added he would "immediately draw down ...
Edwards was born in Hartford, Connecticut, Sept. 27, 1798, and was the eldest son of Jonathan Walter Edwards (1772-1831), a distinguished lawyer of Hartford, son of the theologian Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) and grandson of the famed American theologian and revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards (1745–1801).