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WILLIAM EDWARDS, heater, National Rolling-mill, McKeesport, was born in Shropshire, England, March 30, 1846, a son of Thomas and Ann (Fletcher) Edwards. He was reared in his native country, and for eight years served an apprenticeship as a puddler and heater. At the age of eighteen he had become so proficient in the business as to be given charge of a furnace in Staffordshire, which he conducted two years, after which he worked at his trade in different parts of England up to 1879. He then came to America, located in McKeesport, and entered the employ of the National Tube-works company, as a heater in the rolling-mill, which position he has since held. He married, Dec. 29, 1868, Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Ann (Turner) Cook, of Worcestershire, England, by whom he had ten children: Ann E., Rhoda J., Ellen, William (deceased), Florence, Lillie, Minnie, Percy, Frederick and Lizzie (deceased). Mr. Edwards is a member of St. George’s society, Foresters and the Amalgamated association; he is a republican.