BiographyEliza Thaw was the daughter of William Thaw, Sr. and his first wife Eliza Burd Blair. She married George Breed Edwards in 1864. Edwards worked for William Thaw as a manager for the Star Union Line and later as a freight agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
One of her half brothers was Harry Kendall Thaw, who shot Standford White and was married to Evelyn Nesbit.