Biographical Sketch of

Adelbert Edwards

Transcribed by Robert Schieber

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Pages 745 - 746


Adelbert Edwards, M. D., was born near Elmira, Chemung county, New York, November 22, 1860.  He is a son of 
David B. and Amanda (Ketchum) Edwards, and on the paternal side is doubtless of English or Welsh lineage.

David B. Edwards is a native of New York.  In the early 'sixties he came to Wisconsin and lived on a farm in 
Adams county until 1889, when he went to Phillips county until 1889, where he still resides at the age of 
eighty-six years.  His wife died soon after their removal to that state, aged about seventy years.

Adelbert Edwards spent most of his early life in Adams county, Wisconsin, developing a rugged constitution, 
for the formation of which the climate and environment of the Badger state seem to be peculiarly adapted.  
After leaving the public schools he spent two years at the State Normal School at Oshkosh and devoted four 
or five years more to teaching in Adams county.  He began to study the healing art with Dr. Jenkins, of 
Kilbourn, and, after a time, went to Thayer, Kansas, where he was associated in practice with Dr. Houston.  
He applied himself tto the work with considerable zeal and enthusiasm and, with a view to fitting himself 
thoroughly for the art, took a course at the Medical school of the Iowa University at Iowa City, graduating 
in 1885.  he then engaged in practice at Kingston, Wisconsin, and later located at Plainfield, in the same 
state.  Desiring to perfect himself in the profession he went to Rush Medical College, Chicago, and received 
a diploma from that famous institution in 1889.  At that date he located in Sauk county, opening an office 
first in Loganville.  From there he removed to Lime Ridge, where he practiced for three years, also conducting 
a drug store.  His growing patronage admonished him to seek a wider field for its development and, in 1894, 
he opened an office at Reedsburg where he has since pursued a general practice.  He keeps fully abreast of 
the latest developments in medical science and for a dozen years past has taken post-graduate courses semi-
annually, making a special study of surgery, gynecology and diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.  
Having a practical, as well as a theoretical knowledge of these subjects, accounts in a measure for his 
remarkable success and the increasing demand for his services.

Dr. Edwards was first married to Miss Ella Jones, of Oxford, Wisconsin.  She was a daughter of Norman Jones, 
a prominent farmer near that village, in Adams county, of whom an exended biographical notice appears elsewhere 
in this volume.  The matrimonial joys of Dr. and Mrs. Edwards were severed by the death of the latter, which 
occurred in 1883.  She was twenty-two years of age and left on daughter, Ella M.  The Doctor married Miss 
Nellie Jones, a sister of his first wife, and the present partner of his joys and sorrows.  She has borne 
him two daughters, named, respectively, Ethel and Jessie, and a son, named Harvey.  Dr. and Mrs. Edwards 
are connected with the Congregational church.  Their pleasant home is a popular resort for children, who 
always meet a hearty welcome there.  The Doctor is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  He 
has been a supporter of the Republican party from boyhood, but is in no sense a politician.  Untiring in 
his professional labors and genial in disposition, he certainly merits the popularity which he has won.


Transcribed by Robert Schieber






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