Mayor George H. Edwards, 32°
(May 25, 1860-Dec 28, 1941)
Member, Princeton Lodge #587, Princeton, Ill
Member, Albert Pike Lodge #219, Kansas City, MO

1903 - 14° Lodge of Perfection
1916 - 18° Chapter of Rose Croix
1916 - 30° Council of Knights Kadosh
1916 - 32° Consistory of Western Missouri, Kansas City

Occupation: Kansas City Mayor from 1916 to 1918; member of the upper house of the Kansas City Council 1906-1914; jeweler, Edwards-Sloan Jewelry; president of the Mercantile Bank.
Recommended: RJ Gilbert, FW Meyer
Interred: Elmwood Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

George Herbert Edwards, president of the Edwards & Sloane Jewelry Company of Kansas City, was born in St. Louis in 1860. His education was acquired at the Princeton high school and the Illinois State Normal University, of which his father, Hon. Richard Edwards, (later state superintendent of schools of Illinois) was president. Our subject was thus equipped by liberal education for life's practical and responsible duties. Throughout the period of his connection with business interests he has been associated with the jewelry trade. For ten years he traveled for eastern jewelry houses, becoming thoroughly acquainted with the manufactured product and with the business public. Desirous of engaging in business on his own account, he located in Kansas City in 1889, where he associated himself with S. D. Mills in the jewelry manufacturing business under the firm style of the S D. Mills Jewelry Company. On the death of Mr. Mills, in 1890, the business was acquired by Mr. Edwards and Mr. Sloane and the name was changed to the Edwards & Sloane Jewelry Company, since which time the business has been developed from an exclusive manufacturing business to a manufacturing and jobbing enterprise. For nineteen years he has continued in this line, his business continually developing with the growth of the west until the output is now extensive, the sales having long since reached a very profitable figure. Mr. Edwards is also connected with other interests and is of the directors of the Security National Bank of Kansas City.