John Milton Edwards was born January 24, 1874 to John Edwards and Margaret Richards in Mankato, Minnesota.
He married Clara Elizabeth Gerlich on December 4, 1906 in Blue Earth County, Minnesota.[1]
He died, at the age of 41, on on August 26, 1915 in Portland, Oregon.[2] He is buried at the Glenwood Cemetery, Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota[3]
Per University of Chicago, College of Medicine, Alumni Records: John Milton Edwards: Surgeon; M.D.; b. 1874; Local Surg. for the N.W. and St. Paul systems; Commissioner of health of Mankato. For several yrs. Ed., of Plexus, the Coll. of Med. Periodical. Died Ag 26, 1915, Portland, Ore.
From the Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 47, Page 1942 (November 1906?) "Marriages": John Milton Edwards, M.D., to Miss Clara Elizabeth Gerlich, both of Mankato, Minn., December 5.
From the Journal of the American Medical Association, Sept. 11, 1915 (Deaths): John Milton Edwards, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, 1899; aged 41; for several years editor of the college paper the Plexus; formerly of Mankato, Miss.; assistant local surgeon for the Norwestern and St. Paul systems and commissioner of health of Mankato; died at his home in Portland, Ore., August 26, from carcinoma of the rectum.
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