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The Edgerton Database |
Wells Edgerton, son of Joseph and Candace (Rice) Edgerton.
Lydia Bishop Evarts, daughter of Augustus and
Sarah (
Children:
Arminta E. Fitzgerald The
following biography of Wells Edgerton is excerpted from Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide,
A Biographical Dictionary, 1839 – 1865 (Peter E. Palmquist & Thomas
R. Kailbourn; Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press; 2005; pg. 230): “Edgerton, Wells (1805 – 1878) “Artist”; active Pleasant Gap Township, Mo. 1860. Wells Edgerton was born March 8, 1805, in Brecksville, Ohio. His parents were Joseph Edgerton (1768 – 1849) and Caroline Rice Edgerton (1770 – 1853). On December 29, 1831, Edgerton marriaged Lydia Bishop Evarts, who was born in New York on November 23, 1810. The 1860 census of Pleasant Gap Township, Missouri listed him as ‘Wells Edgarton,’ a fifty-five-year-old “artist” with real estate worth $1,000 and personal property worth $500. It is not certain if he was a daguerreian. The census spelled his wife’s name as ‘Leda B. Edgarton’ and gave her age as forty-six, born in New York. Their children were Emeline E., age eighteen, born in Ohio; and Alice S., twelve, and Guy L., six, both of whom were born in Ohio. Lydia Edgerton died on January 21, 1873; her husband followed her in death on February 25, 1878.” The
household of “Wells Edgertant” was recorded in the the 1840 Federal Census
of Brecksville, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, with
the following enumeration: 1 male “30 and under 40” (Wells); 1 male “5 and under 10” (son Noah); 1 female “20 and under 30” (wife Lydia); 1 female “5 and under 10” (daughter Lydia); and, 1 female “under 5 year of age” (daughter Sarah). The household of Wells Edgerton was recorded in the 1850 Federal Census of Lick Creek Township, Van Buren County, Iowa (pg. 344; dwelling #126; family #126; enum. November 27, 1850), as follows:
The household of Wells
Edgerton was recorded in the 1860 Federal Census
of Pleasant Gap Township,
The household of Wells
Edgerton was recorded in the 1870 Federal Census
of Pleasant Gap Township,
Original Source Documents: 1840 Federal Census – household of Wells Edgerton; Brecksville, Cuyahoga Co., OH. 1850 Federal Census – household of Wells Edgerton; Lick Creek Twp., Van Buren Co., IA. 1860 Federal Census – household of Wells Edgerton; Pleasant Gap Twp., Bates Co., IA. 1870 Federal Census – household of Wells Edgerton; Pleasant Gap Twp., Bates Co., IA. |
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