Edwin C. Jellett

Florist; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 22, 1860; is of Scotch-Irish extraction, a descendant in the eighth generation of William Jellett, born 1632 at Dromore, County Down, Ireland, the son of a French Huguenot; and in thirteenth generation of Sir Ralph Sadleir, of Scotland; removed to Lumberton, Burlington County, N.J., and from there to Limerick, Montgomery County, Pa.; since 1873 at Germantown, Pa.; educated at private and public schools. Is a Republican in theory, but an Independent in practice. For several years has followed steam engineering. Member of the Site and Relic Society, of Germantown, of the executive committee of the Mermaid Club, of board of managers of Workingmen's Club; vice-president of City History Club; vice-president of Germantown Horticultural Society; member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Foresters' Association. Is a correspondent of scientific and literary papers and magazines. Author of: The Mermaid of the Past, 1892: Ferns of Germantown, 1896; The Mermaid Club, its Past and Future, 1897; Personal Recollections of William Kite, 1901; Winter Flora of Germantown, 1901; German-Towne: Its Founders and Their Progenitors, and What We Owe Them, 1903; A Flora of Germantown, with Notes of Nature and Nature Lovers, 1903; Germantown. Old and New: Its Rare and Notable Plants, two editions published in 1904. Address: 118 Hermann Street, Germantown, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, p. 393.

Submitted by Nancy.