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On December 25, 1871, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell, whom he had met two months earlier as she was an employee at one of his shops. They had three children:

  • Marion Estelle Edison (1873-1965), nicknamed "Dot"
  • Thomas Alva Edison, Jr. (1876-1935), nicknamed "Dash"
  • William Leslie Edison (1878-1937)

Mary Edison died on August 9, 1884.

On February 24, 1886, at the age of thirty nine, Edison married 20-year-old Mina Miller in Akron, Ohio. She was the daughter of inventor Lewis Miller, co-founder of the Chautauqua Institution and a benefactor of Methodist charities. They also had three children:

  • Madeleine Edison (1888-1979), who married John Eyre Sloane
  • Charles Edison (1890-1969), who took over the company upon his father's death and who later was elected Governor of New Jersey

Mina outlived Thomas Edison, dying on August 24, 1947

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Thomas Edison married twice and he had three children each from both marriages.

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17 and a half

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no, he did not have a third wife

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