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Edmund Morewood Ferguson (August 15, 1838 – June 18, 1904)

Ferguson was born August 15, 1838, in New York City. His family moved to White Plains, New York where Ferguson attended school. He graduated from Trinity College. Worked at the Morgan Iron Works from 1858 to 1865. Moved to Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was in the coke business in Uniontown, Pennsylvania and soon founded the Morewood Coke Company, forming a partnership with Henry C. Frick.

President of the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank, director until merge with Bank of Pittsburgh. Director of the Fidelity Title and Trust Company. Real estate investor in downtown and the East End

Ferguson Block

Dallmyer building

Member of the Duquesne Club and Pittsburgh Club. Member of the Calvary Episcopal Church.

Married Josephine Mackintosh in 1872 and had four children.

Ferguson died June 18, 1904, at his East End home in Pittsburgh. Homewood Cemetery

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-post-em-ferguson-dies-ho/8829064/

https://www.stamfordyc.com/About_(1)/Club_History_(1)/Short_Tacks_Articles/Commodore_Ferguson

https://archive.org/details/historyoffayette00elli/page/414/mode/2up?q=ferguson