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​Edward Rowland Austin
Biography
Edward Rowland AUSTIN was born 8 July 1859 at New York, New York, to Agnes ROWLAND and Julius AUSTIN.  Shortly thereafter the family relocated to Townsend and then Wakeman, Ohio, where he spent his boyhood.

He married Cora Electa WHITON, daughter of Electa Ann BINGHAM and James Flavel WHITON, at Norwalk, Ohio, on 26 May 1886.  Their children were: Mary Electa (Mrs. Harry Miller RAINEY), Gertrude Agnes (Mrs. James Elwood FLETCHER), Mandley Whiton and fraternal twin brother, Clarence Julius Austin.  After the birth of their first child, the family moved to the West Side of Cleveland, Ohio.

Edward Rowland Austin died 30 July 1928 at Cleveland, Ohio.  Burial was at the Wakeman Township Cemetery, where his daughter, Gertrude Agnes Fletcher and his son, LTC Mandley Whiton Austin, USAF Retired also rest.

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