Biography of Edgar E. Long, page 896.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Edgar E. Long, of the firm of Long & Trout, liverymen, Auburn, Ind., was 
born in Pleasant lake, Steuben County, Ind., Jun 15, 1850, a son of Benajah 
B. Long, who settled at Pleasant Lake in 1836, thence to Waterloo in 1859, 
and was for a number of year a leading merchant of that place.  He was also 
engaged in the livery business eighteen years, and our subject remained with 
him all the time when not in school. He received a good education in the 
schools of Waterloo. He was married March 7, 1872, to Dora A. Dickinson, 
daughter of Timothy Dickinson, and early settler of Auburn.  They have one 
child-Mary O.  Mr. Long became proprietor of Long’s Hotel in 1878 and 
carried it on six year.  He moved to Auburn in September, 1884, and in 
company with Eugene Trout became established in the livery business.  They 
have a good trade, their stock being valued at $3,000.  Mr. Long was Marshal 
of Waterloo in 1874 and 1875.  He is member of the Knights of Honor, Union 
Lodge, No. 1,436, at Waterloo.

Submitted by:
Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com