Main Street - Trout Lake - 1920s

Padgett's New Store Main Street Edwards and Trout Lake 1910

North End of Trout Lake, Edwards

Trout Lake 1910

Trout Lake

View of Town

Sky View - Edwards - 1950s

Edwards - Early 1900s

Edwards from Stand Pipe 1912

Library 1925

Hepburn Library - 1950s

Edwards Town Hall

Edwards Town Hall 1914

Town Hall - 1950s

Main Street early 1900s

Padgetts New Store

Who were the Padgetts?

1870 Census: Samuel V, 43 , Millwright born Vt., Mary 43, George H, 20 Millwright, Frank M, 17, Farm Laborer, Nettie 15, Millie A 14, Harriett 10

1920 Census: Living on Main St - George H 70,Retail Merchant General Store, Julia F , 70

Living on Second St - Weldon 37, Retail Merchant General Store, Lulu D, 32, Weldon C 8, Herbert H 6

Edwards 1906 - Hotel Edward on the corner - Harness Shop

Main Street Looking West early 1900s

Main Street 1910

Main Street 1915

Main Street Looking South

Main Street Looking East

Edwards Main Street 1923

Edwards Main Street

Edwards National Bank, Hotel, Street Sign - to Tupper Lake and Star Lake

1909 Main Street

Main Street North

Downtown Edwards 1940s

Zinc Mines - burned - 1914

Edwards Zinc Mines

Northern Ore Company Mines - 1915

Potsdam St Lawrence Herald 1900

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1913

Canton Commercial Advertiser 1916

Masonic Hall - Edwards

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St. Lawrence Plaindealer 1894:

St. Lawrence Plaindealer May 9, 1906:

Edwards was named after Edward McCormick - Sea Captain - East India Trade - born in Cheshire Ct, brother of Daniel McCormick Esquire - a partner of Macomb, one of the first directors of the Bank of New York.

From "The Life of Alexander Macomb":

http://mlloyd.org/gen/macomb/text/amsr/wt.htm"Daniel

Daniel " McCormick (1744-1834) served as a lieutenant in the patriot militia until the British occupation of New York City, thereafter becoming a vendue master, or auctioneer, of captured American vessels and their cargoes. After the war, he enjoyed life as a merchant, convivial bachelor-about-town and philanthropist, remembered as the last man in New York to wear knee breeches and silver-buckled shoes......Another valued ally was popular Daniel McCormick, who as a recognized neutral during the occupation escaped confiscation of his property and as early as 1784 had won election to the newly formed Chamber of Commerce....A common bond of these men, one that undoubtedly meant much to Irish-born newcomers like Macomb, was membership in the Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick, one of the ethnic friendly societies springing up at the time. Organized by William Constable and Daniel McCormick in the winter of 1783, the society primarily aimed to assist indigent Irish, but its social aspects also appealed to the convivial Irish-Americans. By tradition the largely Presbyterian members greed never to discuss politics or religion at meetings, but politically minded members like Governor George Clinton might have bent the rule once in a while."

McCormick, Daniel, Mechant of NYC, Partner in Moore, Lynsen, Co. (Vendue Masters Thomas William Moore, Abraham Lynsen and Daniel McCormick, Wall St - from the Colonial Records of the New York Chamber of Commerce 1768 - 1784)

From :" Olde Merchants of New York City":

http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Business/Merchant/Backhouse26.html

"That grand old fellow, Daniel McCormick, had so many good points, that I forget some of them. He was a Mason, and as early as 1786 was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Free and accepted Masons of New York.....the celebrated houseNo. 57 Wall Street, occupied by Daniel McCormick...What talking times these old jokers (young ones) used to have on stoop No. 57 Wall Street. The house stood below the present Merchant's Exchange, on the south side, three doors this side of Pearl Street until the great fire. It was forty feet wide. It was built of brick____ plastered over to represent stone, and was painted blue. Daniel McCormick bought the property about 1790, built that house, and moved into it about 1792."