Alvina (Lulen) EDWARDS

EDWARDS, LULEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/26/2008 at 11:23:43

Compendium of History Reminiscence & Biography of Western Nebraska, 1909, Chicago, IL, pages 302-303

Among the leading public spirited citizens of Kearney, Buffalo county, Nebraska, the name of C. A. Edwards [Clarence A.] merits a foremost place. He is a business man of more than ordinary ability and has gained the esteem and confidence of all with whom he has had to do since locating in Nebraska.

Mr. Edwards was born in Moline, Ill. He was educated at Valparaiso, Indiana, and from 1894 to 1902 held the position of manager and engineer of the Gothenburg Water Power and Irrigation Company, located at Gothenburg, Nebraska. He built for this company twenty miles of irrigation ditch, also the orchard and alfalfa ditch at Cozad. In 1902 the Gothenburg company sold out all their interest to the Platte Valley Cattle Company. From 1887 to 1891 he was county surveyor of Dawson county, and he was the engineer in the building of the Kearney & Black Hills railway, from the former place to Callaway. Prior to coming to Nebraska our subject was a resident engineer on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railway. He has platted many of the town sites through the western part of the state of Nebraska, and he has calls from all over this part of the state for his services. He has followed his profession as civil engineer and surveyor for the past twenty-four years in this part of the country, first coming to Nebraska in 1885, when he located at Guernsey, near Sumner. In 1902 he was elected county surveyor of Buffalo county, also city surveyor of Kearney, and has filled both of these positions with credit, and met with marked success in every undertaking. Mr. Edwards is also interested in agricultural pursuits to some extent, and is the owner of a fine farm in Dawson country. He was married April 14, 1865, to Miss Alvina Lulen, a native of Dows, Iowa. They have five children--Florence, Gordon, Herbert, Gladys and Frank, all at home.