Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 4. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 952.
 
CHARLES EDWARDS

     has been a westerner since boyhood, coming to California in the early Î50s.
He owns two hundred acres of timber land in the Golden state and forty acres in
Josephine county, Oregon, near Murphy, where he has made his home for many
years.  He was born in Louisiana, April 17, 1842, a son of Hiller and Eliza
(Fluker) Edwards, and is one of four children born to his parents.  After
receiving a common-school education in his native state he left Louisiana and
the parental roof at the age of about thirteen years and by ox teams crossed the
plains to California.  On arriving in the latter state he obtained employment in
the mines, for a time, and also was one of a threshing machine crew, working at
sewing bags.  While in California he acquired two hundred acres of valuable
timber land, which he still owns.  Later in life, he removed to Oregon, and
purchased forty acres of land in Josephine county, near Murphy, and upon that
property he has since made his home. 
     Charles Edwards is a democrat and has always taken interest in public
affairs.  He has long been recognized as one of Joesphine countyâs valued and
honored citizens and has great faith in the future of his section of the
country.  He is a man of genial disposition, optimistic and warm-hearted, and
these qualities have gained for him a large number of personal friends and have
made him well liked in the community in which he lives.  Among his most valued
possessions is an heirloom in the form of a violin, which is about two hundred
years old.  This instrument he cherishes highly and would not think of parting
with it.
 

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Sarah Olsen
Head Researcher
Frazier Farmstead Museum
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