Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 4. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 611.
 
CLARENCE J. EDWARDS

     manager of the Yamhill Electric Company and also prominently connected with
the Newberg Telephone Company at Newberg, Oregon, was born in Mooresville,
Indiana, February 17, 1871, his parents being Jesse and Mary E. K. Edwards, who
were early settlers of this state and among the founders of Newberg.  They were
active in the early work of the Quaker church in Oregon and in the establishment
of Pacific College, and in many other ways left their impress for good upon the
development of the northwest.
     Clarence J. Edwards, becoming a student of the Pacific College, was
graduated there from with its first class in 1893.  He has since figured
actively and prominently in business circles, spending nine years as manager of
the Newberg Pressed Brick & Terra Cotta Company, which afterward became the
Pacific Face Brick Company.  He organized and for the past eleven years has been
manager of the Yamhill Electric Company, of which he is the principal
stockholder, and he is one of the leading directors of the Newberg Telephone
Company.  A recital of these connections is sufficient to indicate how prominent
a place he has occupied in connection with the business development of his town.
He is a man of determined purpose, carrying forward to successful completion
whatever he undertakes, for he knows that when one avenue of opportunity seems
closed there can be found other paths leading to the desired goal.  Aside from
his business associations Mr. Edwards has occupied a central place in public
activity here.  He is one of the prominent representatives of the republican
party and has filled the office of mayor of Newberg, while several times he has
served as school director.  He has likewise been a member of the board of
management of Pacific College and his influence is always given on the side of
advancement, progress and reform.
     In 1893 occurred the marriage of Mr. Edwards and Miss Abbie L Miles, a
daughter of I.N. Miles, a leading horticulturist and stock farmer of Marion
county, Oregon.  There are two children of this marriage, Lloyd W and M. Lowell.
The family attends the Friends church, in the faith of which Mr. Edwards was
reared and to which he has always adhered.  Practically his entire life has been
spent in the northwest and at all times he has been closely allied with the
progressive movement which is leading to the rapid development of this section
of the country and placing it upon a par with the older and thickly settled
east.  He knows that there is much to be done and he bears his part in the work,
never faltering where the best interests of the community are to be served.
 

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