Edwin R. Enbody was born in Mauch Chunk, October 11, 1844, and after mastering the elementary branches of English learning in the public schools he pursued a course of study in Dickinson Seminary. On completing his education he served as mail agent for a year and a half, and then entered the employ of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, with which he was connected until 1868, when he accepted the position of head bookkeeper with W. T. Carter & Company, of Beaver Meadows, Pennsylvania. He next entered the railroad shops at Weatherly, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1884, when he returned to Mauch Chunk, and became manager of the Mauch Chunk Gas Company. He has since served in this capacity. In politics, Edwin R. Enbody is a Democrat, active in support of his party. In 1899 he was elected to the position of associate judge of Carbon County, and is now serving. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and for twelve years he has been one of its elders, while in various departments of church work he is an active cooperant. In the community where he is well known he is regarded as a self-made man of splendid traits of character, his sterling qualities being such as to command the respect and confidence of all.