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Webster Edgerly born in Massachusetts, graduated from Boston University with a law degree in 1876. That same year he founded the Ralston Health Club.

See his picture here Webster Edgerly

He was born to Rhoda Lucinda Stone and John Foss Edgerley in Salem, Massachusetts

He married Edna Reed Boyts 5 Jul 1892 in McConnellsville, Pennsylvania

He practiced law in Boston, Kansas, and Washington DC. In 1896, he began living eight months of the year at Ralston Heights

Webster Edgerly of Hopewell, New Jersey
Charismatic leader of a utopian society at Ralston Heights, New Jersey now known as Hopewell. His Ralston breakfast cereal venture merged with Purina Mills, (or Purina Wholefood Company), founded by William Danforth aka Will Danforth. Together, in 1902, they became Ralston-Purina.

He founded a community of Ralstonites at Ralston Heights in 1905

He died in 5 Nov 1926 in Trenton, NJ and his wife sold the property the following year.