William Daniel Edy

As per 1914 & 1916 newspaper articles and family lore (but disputed on Wikitree), a telephone call between the photography studio of William Daniel Edy (b. 1832 Brant Co., ON - d. 1916 London, ON), and Alexander Graham Bell's farm, was the very first in the world. It is also alleged that all the original photos of Bell's apparatus were taken by Edy, as were photographs of Walt Whitman while passing thru London. Daniel's father, Daniel Sr., was reputed to have occupied the first log cabin in Brantford, and his grandfather, Roswell, the first house in Guelph. Roswell was a United Empire Loyalist had fled Massachusetts in 1783, with his brothers Abner & Solomon, following the Revolutionary War, and they settled initially seven miles from Hamilton at Ancaster, founded officially in 1792 and merged into Hamilton in 2001.

Daniel and his first wife were registered "Second Adventist" in 1871, and he and his children were PB by 1881. He was either part of the open brethren meeting on Colborne & Horton, or the exclusive meeting room. He married his second wife Mary Howell at Oshawa in 1874, when Daniel was registered as "Missivas", Mary as Wesleyan Methodist. Mary was Baptist by 1881 and remained such for the remainder of her life, Daniel remained PB. They resided in Brantford until 1884 when they moved to London.