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          Life Summary
Full name
              Thomas Alva Edison
          Place of Birth
              
          Burial Place
              
          Birth Date Certainty
              Exact
          Death Date Certainty
              Exact
          Gender
              Male
          Race
              White
          Sectional choice
              North
          Origins
              Free State
          No. of Spouses
              2
          No. of Children
              6
          Family
              Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (father), Nancy Matthews Elliot Edison (mother), Mary Stilwell (first wife), Mina Miller (second wife) 
Occupation
          Scientist or Inventor
              Relation to Slavery
          White non-slaveholder
              Church or Religious Denomination
          Other
              Other Religion
              Deist