EDWARDS, CLARENCE RANSOM

(1860), a maj.-gen., U. S. Army, b. at Cleveland, O., s. of William and Lucia Ransom Edwards. He graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1883, and afterwards served on various duties and stations, including service in the Philippines with General Lawton and later command of the United States troops in the Panama Canal Zone, 1915-1917. In August, 1917, he organized the 26th Div., U. S. A., and the following September sailed to France where he did ten months front line duty in the sectors of Chemin-des Dames, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, with the rank of major-general. He returned to the U. S. in 1918 and after various a ignments was given command of 1st Corps Area headquarters, Army Base, Boston, 1921.