An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 402-403

	HOLLAS EDWARDS, a native of the State of Oregon, was born in Polk county,
April 26, 1855, his father, Samuel Edwards, was a native of Kentucky, where he
married Rebecca A. Wilson, who was a native of Illinois. Samuel Edwards went to
Illinois when he was a young man, and after marrying, started for Oregon in
1851. The long trip across the plains was made by ox team, and his settlement in
Polk county, Oregon, followed. There the family until 1873, when he sold out and
removed to Walla Walla county, Washington, where he settled on a farm three and
one half miles south of Walla Walla, where he died in 1890, at the age of
sixty-four. His wife died in 1855, leaving a family of three children, of whom
Hollas was the youngest. The father married a second time in 1873, his wife
being Mrs. De Haven, and four children resulted from that marriage. Mrs. Edwards
is now residing with our subject.
	Our subject came to Washington with his parents in 1873; and at the age of
twenty-one he took the management of his own affairs, working for wages until he
had accumulated enough to buy a piece of land at the foot-hills. After buying
and selling several pieces of city property in Walla Walla and running a
transfer wagon, he removed to Oregon a year later, bought a tract there and then
returned to Walla Walla. At this place he purchased his present farm, which he
has been successfully developing ever since.
	Mr. Edwards was married April 30, 1876, to Miss Alice De Haven, also a
native of Oregon. Five children have been born to our subject and wife, but two
of them have been removed by accidental death. Clifford, at the age of eight
years was killed by being thrown from a pony; and Guy was killed by being
smothered under a sand-bank. The others, Miles H., Leroy and Burtie are bright
children. 
	Politically Mr. Edwards is a Republican and cast his first vote for
President Hayes.
	In October, 1893, Mr. Edwards removed to a place near Bellevue, Oregon,
where he is now residing.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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