Fidelity Union Trust Co. Check Signed by Mina M. Edison - 1940 dated Autograph

Check signed at front by Mina M. Edison, 2nd wife of Thomas Edison. West Orange, New Jersey. Mina Miller Edison (July 6, 1865 " August 24, 1947) was an American community activist and the second wife of inventor and industrialist Thomas Edison. She was a community activist in Fort Myers, Florida, known for her work advancing the use of public spaces and education initiatives. Mina Miller met Thomas Edison at the home of the inventor Ezra Gilliland, a mutual friend of her father and Edison, in Boston in 1885. After he taught her Morse code, he used it to ask her to marry him.They married on February 24, 1886. At age twenty, the new Mrs. Edison became a stepmother to Edisons three children, Marion Estelle Edison (1873"1965), nicknamed "Dot"; Thomas Alva Edison Jr. (1876"1935), nicknamed "Dash"; and William Leslie Edison (1878"1937). This was not an easy task. Mina and her husband went on to have three more children, Madeleine Edison (1888"1979); Charles Edison (1890"1969); and Theodore Miller Edison (1898"1992). As Thomas Edison supervised his laboratory down the hill, Mina hired and supervised a staff of maids, a cook, a nanny and a gardening staff. She even called herself the "home executive". After 1891 she, not her husband, owned the house which protected the house from being seized to pay Edison's debts if he went bankrupt. Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.