REV. DAVID EDWARDS, WYMORE, GAGE COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
Rev. David Edwards, present pastor of Lake Crystal, Jerusalem and Salem C. M. (Welsh Presbyterian) churches. He was born in 1861 at Bangor, a city of Caernarvonshire, Wales, at head of Beaumaris Bay, and in the midst of a romantic valley.The first years of his life were spent at home and in attendance at the British and Grammar schools. In the year 1877 he left home and was employed as a clerk in a woolen warehouse at Liverpool, England, where he stayed for three years.
In 1880 he left Liverpool and entered a private grammar school at Oswestry, in Shropshire, and during his stay there was admitted as a regular member of the Presbytery in 1882. After attending college for five years more, he sailed from his native shores, anticipating a stay of four months in the United States.
The climate, however, proving greatly beneficial to his health, was a great inducement for him to remain here. He took charge of the Welsh Presbyterian churches in Nebraska and Denver, Colorado, but in February, 1893, moved to Lake Crystal, Minnesota, and became the pastor of the three Welsh churches first mentioned. Mr. Edwards married December, 1888, Lizzie, daughter of the late John S. Jones, Blue Springs, Nebraska.