Title: Anniston Star, Anniston, Alabama Page: 23 September 1931, p3
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Title: Sandusky Register, Sandusky, Ohio Page: 15 September 1931, p1
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Title: Popular Mechanics Magazine Page: December 1931, p 921
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Title: Texas Deaths and Burials, 1903-1973
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Title: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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Continued: 1899: Got married on Valentine's Day. 1880: His closest sibling in age is the only one in the family noted as born not in North Carolina but Texas. So it's possible that he actually was born in Texas. 1930: Renting a room from Belle N Traylor, a 71-year-old widow. I first learned of this inventor from a small photo montage on the Chicago Patent Exposition that was published in newspapers throughout the US in 1931. It included a photo of an inventor and his compressed air powered dirigible and a one-line description, but not the inventor's name. A different article had a better description but still no name. Finding his name was easy by searching Google's patent database; he lived close to Chicago and how many people invent compressed air powered dirigibles? The photo and the patent drawing match perfectly, and there is your inventor. Again an article was published in a Popular Mechanics magazine showing only a photo of the inventor and his dirigible with no name. The owner of the magazine had gone through the article making notations on the inventors mentioned, and the notation next to the photo of this inventor was "Edwards Developing Co., Springfield, Ill." and "Edwards Storm Rug." I had to guess as to the identity of his parents from the early census since no middle initial was given. Proof of his parentage finally came from his death certificate.
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