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On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, whom he had met two months earlier as she was an employee at one of his shops. They had three children:

  • Marion Estelle Edison (1873-1965), nicknamed "Dot"
  • Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. (1876-1935), nicknamed "Dash"
  • William Leslie Edison (1878-1937) Inventor, graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, 1900.

Mary Edison died on August 9, 1884, possibly from a brain tumor.

On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty nine, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio She was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller co-founder of the Chautage and a benefactor of Methodist charities.

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