Susan R. Powers was born in Hadley, Massachusetts. She married Charles Edwards in 1860 in Massachusetts and returned with him to Lawrence where he had been living for five years. They had one daughter, Virginia Sedgewick. Charles L. Edwards was principal of the first Lawrence High School. He became one of the pioneer and prominent educators in Kansas. He was born at Southampton, Mass. October 12, 1828. He received his education in the public school, Southampton Academy Williston Seminary, and Philips Academy, Andover. In 1852, he graduated from Westfield Normal School. Mr. Edwards came to Kansas in November, 1855, having in mind three reasons for coming: to assist in making Kansas a free state, to help in forming its educational character, and to better his own fortune. For a year he was clerk for hon. S. C. Pomeroy in the Emigrant Aid Company’s office. He was living in the Free State Hotel with the Eldridge family when it was burned by Sheriff Jones and his men on the 21st of May, 1856, at which time he saved the historic call bell. On March 30, 1857, he opened the Quincy High School in the basement of the Unitarian Church. In the winter of 1857-58, he was principal of a public school with Misses Lucy M. Wilder, Sarah A. Brown and Mary Boughton as assistants. In 1862, he enlisted in his native town as a private and retired at the close of the war as major of his regiment. In 1866, Major Edwards returned to Lawrence, where he remained until his death. The Edwards'daughter, Virginia Sedgewick, who was city librarian in her later life. The Edwards family where members of the Plymouth Congregational Church. Mr. Edwards was the twenty-sixth person to become a member. This picture was given to the library by the Misses Emma and May Savage in 1929.