Edwin Ruthven ENBODY

                   Genealogical & Personal Memoirs of Lehigh Valley, PA by Jordan, Vol. 2, p. 264-65
Burial Records - Mauch Chuck Cemetery
1850 Census, Mauch Chunk


        Edwin R. Enbody was prominent in connection with business and public affairs in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania as the manager of the Gas Company and associate judge of Carbon County.
       He attend public school followed by studies in Dickinson Seminary, served as mail agent for a little over a year, worked for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company until 1868 and became head bookkeeper with W.T. Carter and Company for Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania.
       He next entered the railroad shops at Weatherly, Pennsylvania where he remained until 1884, when he returned to Mauch Chunk and became manager of the Mauch Chunk Gas Company.
       Edwin actively supported the Democratic party and was in 18999 elected to the position of associate judge of Carbon County.  He was a member of the Presbyterian church and was for twelve years an elder and active in various departments of church work.
       In his community he was regarded as a self made man of splendid traits of character, his sterling qualities being such as to command the respect and confidence of all.