BUTLER COUNTY OHIO ****************************************************************************** Contributed to the Butler Co., OH Biographies Project with permission of the Butler County OHGenWeb coordinator Nancy Sween & the submitter. Butler County OHGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler ****************************************************************************** File contributed to Ohio Biographies Project by: Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com 1 March 2000 ****************************************************************************** A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers Cincinnati Ohio. Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882. Edgar A. BELDEN, attorney and counselor-at-law, was born in Hamilton, November 28, 1855. He is the son of Samuel C. and Mary (FITTON) BELDEN, and was educated in the schools of Hamilton, graduating at the high school in 1872. He then engaged in the insurance business in Cincinnati for five years, but in 1879 began reading law in the office of Thomas MILLIKIN. He was admitted to the bar in February, 1881, and immediately began practice in Hamilton. He is connected with the Methodists, and is the president of the Irving Literary Club, a pleasant and agreeable society.