Edward Avery
Edward Avery was born, we believe, in the State of Connecticut, and, according to our information, was a graduate of Yale College.
He settled in Wooster in 1817, and was married December 28, 1823, to Jane, daughter of John Galbraith, of Steubenville. With Judge Levi Cox, he was one of the pioneer lawyers at the Wooster bar.
He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County in 1819, and held the office until 1825. He was a member of the Senate of the State of Ohio, serving from December, 1824, to December 4, 1826.
He served in the capacity of Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio prior to the adoption of the New Constitution.
He died June 27, 1866. On the 28th day of June a bar meeting was held at the office of Rex & Jones, at which George Rex, William Given, and John McSweeney were appointed a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting.
Judge Avery was a distinguished jurist, possessing many public and private virtues, his life long, honorable and useful to the community and State. In all ways he was an enlightened, patriotic citizen, an accomplished, honorable man, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian church.
From History of Wayne County, Ohio, From the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time, by Robert Douglass, 1878