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219 Preface 1. “Address of Major-General James G. Harbord at Memorial Service for General Edwards on April 5th,” Yankee Doings 12, no. 4 (April 1931): 8–12. Chapter 1: The Making of a Soldier 1. U.S. Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1860, iConn. Some accounts of Edwards’s life incorrectly give his birth year as 1860. 2. Interment #4933, Record of Burials, Lake View Cemetery Association; Representative Citizens, 83–86; Springfield Republican, December 22, 1918, CPL. 3. Obituary of William Edwards, Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 22, 1898, 1, WRHS. 4. Lucia Ransom was the granddaughter of Asa Ransom and Keziah Keyes. Asa was born in Colchester, Connecticut, on December 2, 1765, and married Keziah in Sheffield , Massachusetts, on October 12, 1794. He was a silversmith by trade and first settled in Buffalo, New York, in 1797. In 1799 he moved just to the northeast of Buffalo, to a portion of the Holland Purchase later known as Clarence Hollow. There he built a two-story log cabin that served both as a home and as a tavern for travelers along the Old Buffalo Road. This was followed by a small sawmill in 1801, and later a gristmill in 1803. He died there on May 11, 1825. Asa and Keziah were the parents of nine children, including Lucia’s father, Harry Bolton Ransom, born in Clarence Hollow on November 5, 1799, the first male child born in the Holland Purchase. Harry was a farmer by trade, but served the town in several capacities. He was known as Colonel Ransom. He died sometime after 1860. Burial Record of Lucia Ransom Edwards, Lake View Cemetery Association, Cleveland, Ohio; U.S. Census, New York 1800, 1820, 1850, and 1860, iConn; Ransom File, Historical Society of the Town of Clarence. 5. Cleveland, Past and Present; Representative Men: Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens, 114–15, CSL. 6. Representative Citizens of Ohio: Memorial–Biographical, 83–86. 7. Warren Zimmermann, First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power, 64–67. 8. Sean Dennis Cashman, America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Notes Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (3rd ed.), 42. 9. Carol Poh Miller and Robert A. Wheeler, Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796–1996 (2nd ed.), 78–79; Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., 119; Zimmermann , First Great Triumph, 64–67. 10. Early accounts and maps of Cleveland refer to both Euclid and Prospect as “streets,” while sometime later, as the city of Cleveland expanded, they were both referred to as “avenues.” 11. U.S. Census, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1870 and 1880, iConn. 12. Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 22, 1898, 1, WRHS. 13. Memorial Meeting of the Gentlemen’s Driving Club Co. Cleveland, 22. WRHS; Rose, Cleveland, 433–34. 14. Charles Augustus Otis, Here I Am: A Rambling Account of the Exciting Times of Yesteryear, 57. 15. David D. Van Tassel and John J. Grabowski, eds., The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (2nd ed.), 333. 16. Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 27 and 29, 1865, Cleveland Morning Leader, April 29, 1865, WRHS; Miller, Cleveland, 75–76. 17. Representative Citizens, 83–86; William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City, 334. 18. Representative Citizens, 83–86. 19. Memorial Meeting, 29. 20. Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut (vol. 1), 252. WRHS; Rose, Cleveland, 371–72; Otis, Here I Am, 57–59; Van Tassel and Grabowski, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, 478–79; Representative Citizens, 83–86; Chernow, Titan, 120. 21. Otis, Here I Am, 53. 22. William Edwards to Clarence Edwards, May 2, 1898, CRE 1.5, MHS. 23. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterized by “inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity .” Persons diagnosed with the disorder are divided into the following subtypes: (1) predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type, (2) predominantly inattentive type, and (3) a combined type. Often undiagnosed and untreated, the condition continues into adulthood. On the positive side, adults with ADHD exhibit“boundless energy, warmth and enthusiasm.” By all accounts, Edwards would seem to fit into the first subtype. Source: National Institute of Mental Health, “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ,” Department of Health and Human Services, 1–8 and 35–38. 24. Otis, Here I Am, 2–6; Van Tassel and Grabowski, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History , 134–35; Rose, Cleveland, 398. 25. Amos Townsend (1819–1895). In 1862, four years after he came to Cleveland, he...