Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Edson Egbert Healy papers, 1863-1932. Accession 54040. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Allison Stabile, Brentwood, Tennessee.

Biographical Information

Edson Egbert Healy was born 3 November 1844 in Newburgh, Ohio, to John Healy (1805-1880) and Daty Hand Hubbard Healy (1810-1881). Educated in public schools, Healy enlisted as a clerk in the United States Commissary Department during the Civil War. Healy and his brother John Sullivan Healy (1842-1908) were captured during a Confederate raid on New Creek, West Virginia, on 28 November 1864. The brothers were held in Castle Thunder in Richmond, Virginia, until their release in an exchange on 5 February 1865. Edson Healy returned to Newburgh where he operated a store with his father and his brother. He married first Esther Ellen Taylor (1845-1911) on 18 February 1869, and they had four children, three of whom lived into adulthood. He married second Ida Rockingham Weinman (1857-1938), 3 February 1916. Healy died 1 April 1932 in Cleveland and was buried in Woodland Cemetery.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1863-1932, of Edson Egbert Healy (1844-1932) of Newburgh and Cleveland, Ohio, containing correspondence, memorandum books, photographs, telegrams, and other papers documenting the capture of Healy and his brother John Sullivan Healy (1842-1908) while working as clerks for the United States Commissary Department during a Confederate raid on New Creek, West Virginia. Obituaries, photographs, and other documents detail Edson Healy's life in Cleveland after the Civil War. Collection includes transcripts.