Norman/Maxwell Family

Obituary:

Pittsburgh Daily Post
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
29 May 1908, Fri
Page 5
Necrological Record

Edmund J. Wilkins.
Edmund J. Wilkins, 66 years old, a well-known business man and member of a prominent Allegheny county family, is dead at his home, 715 Hill avenue, Wilkinsburg. He served through the Civil war in Hampton Battery, Independent Artillery. On his return from the war in 1865, he engaged in the coal business in Cedar avenue, Northside, and later entered the grain business. He was a charter member of Davage lodge, F. and A. M. He was also identified with the Veteran Loyal Legion and Wilklnsburg Post, G. A. R. He is survived by his widow, four daughters, Mrs. Peter Young, of New York; Mrs. William Evans and Josephine and Alice Wilkins, of this city, and one son, John H. Wilkins, of Dunbar, Pa.