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 George
Wesley Edmonds (1890-1962)
was born in Vanderburgh County, Knight Township, Indiana
on August 13, 1890. He entered Carver Elementary School
and Clark High School in Evansville, graduating in 1910.
In the fall of 1910, George entered Indiana University
at Bloomington. He joined nine other students in founding Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity.
After George returned home for the summer
of 1911, his father became ill with pneumonia and died.
His father had worked in the coal mines of Vanderburgh
County for many years. George, being the eldest son, became
head of the family, thus preventing his return to school.
With the new responsibility of supporting the family, George
took a job with the area coal mines and worked with the
coal mines and the railroad until he died of pneumonia
on June 13, 1962. George married the former Willa Mae Forte
and settled in Stevenson, Indiana. They became the parents
of one son, Noel.
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