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 | | At the time of the erection of the State of Oklahoma he was a resident of Comanche County, being elected as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention in 1906 from the 53d District. |
 | | Edley came first to Oklahoma in 1891 and later was at the opening of the Cherokee Strip in 1893, and in 1901 was at the opening of the Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo lands. |
 | | During his lifetime he was engaged in farming, living in Lewis County, Missouri, until August 4, 1891, when he located in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Territory, at the opening of the Pottawatomie, Reservation for settlement on September 22, 1891. |
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