Editing Edison, Ohio (section)

==History==
Edison was formerly called Gilead Station, and later Levering.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Baughman|first1=Abraham J.|last2=Bartlett|first2=Robert Franklin|title=History of Morrow County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA307|year=1911|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|page=307}}</ref> The present name is for American inventor [[Thomas Alva Edison]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA114 | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=114}}</ref> A post office called Gilead Station was established in 1874, and the name was changed to Edison in 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Morrow |title=Morrow County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=December 15, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222120630/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Morrow |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref>