John Wiley Edmands
1809–77
American merchant and congressman. Representative in Congress from Massachusetts, 1853–5. Founded a public library at Newton, Massachusetts. Presided at the banquet held in Boston in honour of Charles Wilkes, captain of the San Jacinto, for his part in the "Trent affair".
Sources
Boston Post
27 November 1861, p. 2
Herringshaw 1909–14.
Bibliography
Herringshaw, Thomas W. 1909–14. Herringshaw’s national library of American biography. 5 vols. Chicago: American Publishers’ Association.
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