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The will to work, joy in work and creative power were the three motives in the life of Edmund
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his life was not without tragedy. He lost three wives while still young, and his fourth wife and five of his children died before him. He married (1) Amalia
Emminghaus, 12 May 1846, who died on 9 February 1847; (2) Charlotte Thomae, 24 April 1848, who died on 17 July 1850; (3) Caroline Thomae, 2
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of friends and representatives of different organisations, as well as of his grandson, Pastor
Wolfgang Heusinger von Waldegg, who accepted the monument in the name of the family and thanked all contributors for the honour shown to his grandfather. His portrait, is hanging in the
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He was also the inventor of the cylinder fly-press and of a writing machine for the blind. Among his many inventions in the line of railway technique he also developed the cast-iron plate wheel, perfected the coupling system and improved passenger coaches on through trains.
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Edmund was the father of nine children, but when he died on 2 February 1886, only two daughters, Charlotte Amalia (on 8 February 1847) and Ida (born 3 August 1856), and two sons, Gottlieb (23 May 1866) and Edmund Jr. (born 2 February 1868), survived him.
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October 1851, who died on 7 February 1859, and (4) Anna
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