Biography
Thomas Todd Edwards was a conscientious objector from Pennsylvania imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 15 years in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: an independent traveling evangelist; registered for the draft on June 5, 1917 as a CO; classified as 1A, later as 23; interviewed by Special Board, on charge of disobedience of orders, on July 24, 1918 at Camp Meade, and on Jan. 6, 1919 at the Disciplinary Barracks ; …
1920s remaining-entry review: The Swarthmore Peace Collection compilation, individual Thomas Todd Edwards row, explicitly records Fort Leavenworth imprisonment December 8, 1918. Its notes distinguish June 5, 1917 draft registration, later board interviews and prison admission. The full individual row, including its cited Mininger list, Scranton Times and Disciplinary Barracks survey, was read. Draft registration is no longer displayed as imprisonment; the source has no actual release date, so the unsupported 1920 endpoint is cleared rather than inferred from other objectors.
