Anna Amelia CROUSS
Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts

George W. Edwards

Among the younger merchants of Pittsfield who have won recognition as men of superior business capacity, the gentleman whose name introduces this narrative may be appropriately numbered. He was born in Pittsfield, January 16, 1876, son of the late George W. and Ida (Mills) Edwards, the former a native of Laconia, New Hampshire, the latter a daughter of the late Josiah Mills, who was a prominent lawyer of Chatham, New York.

The late George W. Edwards was a soldier in the Civil War, serving as first lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Locating in Pittsfield, he purchased Washington Root the jewelry business that had been established by the latter in 1848 at No. 44 North street, and this business was continued bye Mr. Edwards at the location named during the remainder of his life, becoming the leading industry of its kind in Berkshire county. It was conducted for a time following Mr. Edwards' decease (1890) by his widow, the management being entrusted to Edward J. Spall, and is now owned by Mrs. Edwards and her son, George W. Edwards, the latter having a two-thirds interest in and charge of the establishment. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Edwards (Sr.) had two children. Blanche Mills Edwards and George W. Edwards, Jr.

The latter attended the public and high schools of Pittsfield, and as a youth gained his first business experience in his father's store. His attainment of a proprietary interest therein and his majority were simultaneous, and his subsequent purchase of his sisters' interest gave him the two-thirds interest above mentioned. His conduct suggests an inherited fitness, and he has the confidence of a large and growing patronage, and the community generally. He married April 19, 1900, Anna, daughter of George Crouss, formerly a cigar manufacturer of Pittsfield, now a farmer of Agawam, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards, Jr. have a daughter, Priscilla, and reside at No. 105 Bartlett avenue.

Source:
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Volume 2
Author Rollin Hillyer Cooke
Publisher The Lewis Publishing Co., 1906
Pages 418-419




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