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tors of men. The Pacific steamship lin© and fifteen 

 American railway systems have had as president, 

 superintendent, or otherwise active in the manage- 

 ment one of this family. Many large banks, banking 

 houses, and insm-ance companies have been directed 

 by them. They have been owners or superinten- 

 dents of large coal mines in Pennsylvania and "West 

 Virginia, of large iron plants and vast oil interests 

 in Pennsylvania, and of silver mines in Nevada. 

 There is scarcely any great American industry that 

 has not had one of this family among its chief jjro- 

 moters. Eli Whitney of cotton-gin fame married a 

 granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards. 



Prison reform has found its leading advocates in 

 this family. Wilberforce's best American friend 

 was of this fold, and Garibaldi valued one of the 

 family above all other American supporters. 



Whatever the Jukes stand for, the Edwards 

 family does not. Whatever weakness the Jukes 

 represent finds its antidote in the Edwards family, 

 which has cost the country nothing in pauperism, 

 in crime, in hospital or asylum service. On the 

 contrary, it represents the highest usefulness in 

 invention, manufacture, commerce, founding of 

 asylums and hospitals, establishing and developing 

 missions, projecting and energizing the best phil- 

 anthropies. 



