The company made rods for various suppliers: Abbey & Imbrie, Weber, Paul H. Young as well as others. In 1931, E.W. Edwards & Sons sold to Horton Manufacturing. Eustis Edwards was born in 1857 in Maine U.S.A.. His grandfather was the editor and part-owner of the "Portland Advertiser" newspaper in Maine, his great-grandfather was an Advocate General in the Continental Army. Throughout his life, Edwards tried various occupations. As a young adult, he started a small business selling fruit and confections, he was a bookkeeper and laborer before becoming an apprentice rodmaker. He practiced professional photography. In 1886, Eustis married Jennie Gordon. They gave birth to son, William in 1887. In 1895, Edwards and family left for Los Angeles; an ill-fated journey as Jennie became sick and died en route. Eustis moved back to New York and worked as a photographer. The next year, he moved to Brewer, Maine and began making fly rods in partnership with F.E. Thomas, before returning to photography again while continuing to work part-time for Thomas. In roughly 1915 Edwards began to make and sell rods under his own name. Edwards remarried in 1900 to Bertha Ford. In 1902, their son Gene was born. After becoming ill in 1931, Edwards made arrangements to sell his fly rod company. The deal became difficult due to the Great Depression. Eustis Edwards died at Mt. Carmel, Connecticut, on New Year's Eve of that year. He is buried in Highland Mills, New York at Cemetery of the Highlands, the same resting place as Jim Payne and H.L. Leonard.