James Ellis EDWARDS

EDWARDS, HICKS, BAKER, STEBBINS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/13/2008 at 22:38:05

James Ellis Edwards
Occupation: publisher
Born: Eagle Grove, Iowa, December 3, 1892
Education: Student, The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Business School, 1911
Career: Adv. rep. Kimball's Dairy Farmer hdqrs., Waterloo, Iowa, 1911-13; with Prairie Farmer-WLS, Chicago, from 1913; president Prairie Farmer Pub. Co., WLS Inc. operating radio station WLS, from 1948
Career Related: President Wallace Homestead Co., Des Moines, Wisconsin Farmer Co., from 1957.
Memberships: Member Agricultural Pubs. Association (president), Chicago Athletic Association, La Grange (Illinois) Country Club.
Religion: Congregationalist
Family: son of John Ellis and Florence Helena (Hicks) E.; married Esther Stebbins Baker, November 28, 1919; children: Shirley, Marilyn, James, Barbara.
Address: Home: Hinsdale, DuPage, Illinois
Died: July 1969