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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

  [568]

        W. P. EDISON, Superintendent Port Huron Street Railroad, is a
    native of Ontario, Canada, and was born November 5, 1832.  In 1837, his
    parents removed to Milan, Ohio, and he grew up there, and after reach-
    ing manhood, he came to Michigan in 1854, and located in Port Huron.
    He has been actively identified with the Street Railroad Company since
    its organization, and since its completion in 1866 has held the posi-
    tion of Superintendent, and had the active management of operating the
    road, and is the largest stockholder in the company.  He has also been
    interested in vessel and steamboat property.  Mr. EDISON is the eldest
    brother of THOMAS A. EDISON, the noted electrician, whose reputation
    has become world-wide.  Mr. EDISON was united in marriage to Miss ELLEN
    J. HOULIHAN, of Oswego, N.Y., September 26, 1856.  They have one daugh-
    ter, NELLIE M., now Mrs. W. A. POYER, of Norwalk, Ohio.  They lost one
    son, CHARLES P., who died in Paris, France, at the age of nineteen
    years.  He had been studying with his uncle, THOMAS A. EDISON, for a
    number of years, and was a young man of promise.

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