Background
Edwards, Byron Malet was born on June 1, 1888 in Bladenboro, North Carolina, United States. Son of Daniel Baxter and Mary Turner (Edwards) Edwards.
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Byron Malet Edwards
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Attended Bladenboro elementary and high schools, 1894-1905. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University South Carolina., 1953.
Career
Telegraph operator and station agent, Bladenboro, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, 1905-1911. General manager Bennettsville & Cheraw Railroad, Bennettsville, South Carolina., 1911-1918. Cashier Planters National Bank, Bennettsville, 1918-1923.
Vice president, Columbia National Bank, Columbia, 1923-1925.
Vice president, The South Carolina National Bank of Charleston, Columbia, 1925-1940, president and director, 1940-1951, Chairman of the Board from 1952. Assistant secretary United States Treasury, 1941, consultant to the secretary, 1941-1946.
Director South Carolina. Insurance Company, Columbia, Liberty Life Insurance Company, Greenville, South Carolina., Standard Warehouse Company, Columbia.
Director Jefferson Hotel Company, Columbia, Bladenboro Cotton Mills, Marlboro Cotton Mills, Bridges Corporation, Seaboard Airline Railroad Company, South Carolina.
Electric & Gas Company. Member of advisory board Hampton (South Carolina.) plant Westinghouse Electric Company Director Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Charlotte, 1932-1951, National War Fund, Incorporated., New York Trustee Furman University, Benedict College South Carolina. Foundation Indiana Colleges, National Endowment Fund, American Red Cross (member of advisory committee).
Chairman of the board of trustees Baptist Foundation South Carolina.
Chairman advisory board Providence Hospital, Columbia.
Achievements
Religion
In modern culture the ability to make decisions and choose the right path in life has extremely high value. But through the faith believers voluntarily surrender to God in love and joy.
Membership
Clubs: Columbia, Forrest Lake Country (Columbia).
Connections
Married Sadie Bridger Edwards, August 23, 1907. Children: Emma Marie (Mistress James Wesley Hunt), Jettye Vivian (Mistress Albert Edward Lee), Byron Marion, Robert Livingston, Sadie Bridger.
- Father:
- Daniel Baxter Edwards
- Mother:
- Mary Turner (Edwards) Edwards
- Spouse:
- Sadie Bridger Edwards
- child:
- Byron Marion Edwards
- child:
- Emma Marie Edwards (Mistress James Wesley Hunt)
- child:
- Sadie Bridger Edwards
- child:
- Jettye Vivian Edwards (Mistress Albert Edward Lee)
- child:
- Robert Livingston Edwards
