BIO: Edward W. FERGUSON, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 773 & 774.
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  EDWARD W. FERGUSON, who carries on a general mercantile business at Kerrmoor, 
Pa., was born in Ferguson township, Clearfield county, Pa., April 26, 1860, and 
is a son of J. C. Ferguson and a grandson of John Ferguson.
  John Ferguson with his brother David came to Clearfield county from 
Northumberland county, Pa., when he was about thirty years of age, and he became 
one of the prominent and useful men in the early settlement of what is now 
Ferguson township, which part of the county was named in honor of John and David 
Ferguson.  He cleared up a farm of 160 acres here, after which he moved to 
Lumber City, where he was a merchant for a time, and later to Lock Haven, where 
he died at the age of seventy-two years.  He was married after coming to 
Clearfield county, to Betsey Wiley, and they had five children born to them:  
Mary, who married Dr. Ross; Deborah, who married Gibson Jamison; J. C.; 
Elizabeth, who married Lewis Hoover; and an infant son, deceased.
  J. C. Ferguson was reared in Ferguson township, and lived on the old 
homestead, which is now owned by William Thurston.  He served without injury in 
the Civil war, and passed his entire life, with the exception of eighteen years, 
engaged in farming.  He was a man of high standing in his neighborhood and of 
ample fortune, and was a charter member of the Clearfield National Bank at 
Clearfield, Pa.  His death occurred at Kerrmoor, when he was aged sixty-two 
years.  He married Ann Price, who was born near Bloomington, Pa., and died in 
her sixty-first year, both she and husband being interred in the McClure 
cemetery in Pike township.  They had four children, namely:  Edward W.; Abby, 
who is now deceased; Harry, who is a member of the business firm of Ferguson & 
Rossner, at Clearfield; and Robert, who died at the age of eight years.
  Edward W. Ferguson went to school in his boyhood in both Ferguson and Pike 
township, the old schoolhouse in the latter then standing on the present site of 
the McClure cemetery, and afterward he taught one term of school in Ferguson 
township.  Since marriage Mr. Ferguson has lived in Kerrmoor, where he has been 
engaged in merchandising.  He has numerous additional interests, being concerned 
with the milling business of W. L. Bloom & Co., at Kerrmoor, and is a 
stockholder in the C. & C. Telephone Company, the Ferguson & La Jose & Lumber 
City Telephone Company, being secretary of the same.  He and his brother, Harry 
F., conducted a hardware store in Kerrmoor, when the town was first started, in 
the spring of 1886, they continuing together until April, 1907.
  Mr. Ferguson was married first to Miss Eunice Swan, who was born in Jordan 
township, a daughter of Henry Swan, of Ansonville, and they had two children, 
Raymond and Lorraine, the latter surviving.  Mr. Ferguson was married secondly 
to Miss Bertha Hile, a daughter of John P. Hile, of Lumber City, and they have 
two children, Ellery and Warden.  Mr. Ferguson is a Republican in politics but 
has accepted no public office.