He was born in Utica, New York, the son of Arthur Breese and Catherine Livingston, and brother to Senator Sidney Breese of Illinois.
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Edwards' home in Springfield, where he lived from 1843 until his death, was an Illinois social center, and at various points Edwards entertained Ulysses S. Grant, Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman Trumbull, John Hay, Sidney Breese, and other well-known Illinois political figures.