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Lived in Millidgeville, Georgia and Vienna, Maine. Graduated from Fayette Academy, Maine; teacher and farmer.²

LAST RITES HELD FOR JOHN C. EDEN, MANUFACTURER
Funeral Services for well-known Pacific Coast Business Leader Are Set for This Afternoon.
Funeral services for John Carmen Eden, 64 years old, long a Pacific Coast manufacturer and business leader, were to be held at 3 o'clock today In St. Mark's Episcopal - Church after the body had lain in-state at the Bonney-Watson chapel from 11 to 1 o'clock.
Relatives and friends were to attend-the funeral service, to be conducted by the Rev. Dr. John D. McLauchlan. The earlier function was arranged that the public might have opportunity to pay respect to a great Industrial leader.
Active pallbearers for the services were to include some of the men most closely associated with Mr. Eden in his business activities in life: C.N. Reitze, George B. Dickinson, Harry Murbach, Gordon Tongue, James F. Kane, C. W. Wagner, J. Pascoe and William P. Williams. Honorary pallbearers were to include other associates.
Mr. Eden died at his home at The Highlands Saturday night after a prolonged illness.
Born in Goderich, Ont., October 17, 1864, he received training in the railroad business and came to Seattle in 1902 as traffic manager of the Great Northern Railway. He left in 1906 to became a prominent figure in the steel industry in Illinois, but returned in 1907 and organized the Superior Portland Cement Company of Seattle, an enterprise he headed until his death and which made fortunes for him and those associated with him in it. But later he was to lend the benefit of his experience and wealth to numerous other activities going to furnish employment and, create wealth in the Pacific Northwest region, these including the Beliingham Coal Company.
Besides his widow, Caroline, he is survived by three sisters: Mrs. John Coulthurst of Bellingham, Mrs. Henry Lucas of Fort Worth, Tex., and Mrs. George E. Clark of Bridgeburg, Ont., as well as by a nephew, E.P. Lucas of Bellingham.
Cremation is to follow today's services.³

LEE-Camilla Sewall Edge, 74, of Elm St. and Small Point, Maine died Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the Mid Coast Hospital in Brunswick, Maine of respiratory failure.
She was born in Ventnor, New Jersey, October 25, 1923, a daughter of the Hon. Walter E. Edge and Camilla Sewall Edge. Her father served as U.S. Senator and Governor of New Jersey as well as Ambassador to France. On her maternal side she was the great granddaughter of ship builder Arthur Sewall of Bath, Maine who was the vice presidental nominee of William Jennings Bryan.
Camilla graduated from St. Timothy's School in Cattonville, MD. and attended Sarah Lawrence College.
In 1944 she married E. Brooke Lee Jr. of Silver Spring, Maryland; a decendant of Richard Henry Lee. She inspired devotion from her large family & her many close friends. She will be remembered as a person of enormous character, humor, and dignity. She worked as a volunteer for the American Red Cross & conducted fundraising for the Maine Maritime Museum, as well as the American Cancer Society. She is survived by her six children, Camilla Lee Alexander, E. Brooke Lee III, Kaiulani Sewall Lee, Katie Blair Lee St. John, Richard Henry Lee, and Elizabeth Ashe Somerville Lee; fourteen grandchildren; and one great grandson. Portland Press Herald, September 18, 1998.⁵

Sir Frederick Thomas Edrldge, who died at Croydon on Monday, in his 79th year, was a benefactor to the borough, of which he was five times mayor and the first honorary freeman.
The son of Sir Thomas Richard Edridge, Kt., of The Elms, Croydon; he was born in 1843, and was educated at Marlborough. His benefactions included gifts to Croydon General Hospital, Croydon Parish Church (where he was churchwarden for over 30 years); and the Whitgift Foundation (of which he was chairman). He gave a statue of Whitgift to the town, and to the Whitgift Grammar School he was especially generous, endowing a leaving exhibition of £50 a year, and various prizes, and providing, among other advantages, an armoury, a dark-room for photographers, and a sports changing room. To Croydon Town Hall he gave a clock and peal of bells, and he made over the crest of Pollards Hill, Norbury, as a public open space. He was the leader of the Conservative Party in the borough and was frequently pressed to stand for Parliament, but always declined.
Sir Frederick, who was knighted in 1897, was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1909, and was hon. colonel, 4th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment from 1906 to 1919. He married, in 1867, Elizabeth Sara, daughter of J. M. Eastty, of Wellesley House, Croydon.²