<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Tinker, Larry</dc:creator><dc:date>1977-07-01</dc:date><dc:description>On June &lt;em&gt;27,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;1870 Edward Padelford, one of Savannah's oldest merchants and most respected citizens, died at the age of seventy-one years, one month and twenty-eight days. Marion, his daughter and only surviving child, was with him at his home at the time of death. His career in the shipping business had been eminently successful, and at the time of his death he was among the wealthiest of Southern merchants.</dc:description><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Biography--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:title>A Short Biography of Edward Padelford</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>